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Smart Hydrogel Modelling

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Hua Li

    1. College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

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  • First book on the subject
  • Smart hydrogels are important new materials used in high tech and medicinal applications
  • Useful reference source with benchmark results to compare and verify experimental data
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Hua Li
    Pages 1-55

  3. Multi-Effect-Coupling pH-Stimulus (MECpH) Model for pH-Sensitive Hydrogel

    • Hua Li
    Pages 57-114

  4. Multi-Effect-Coupling Electric-Stimulus (MECe) Model for Electric-Sensitive Hydrogel

    • Hua Li
    Pages 115-172

  5. Multi-Effect-Coupling pH-Electric-Stimuli (MECpHe) Model for Smart Hydrogel Responsive to pH-Electric Coupled Stimuli

    • Hua Li
    Pages 173-218

  6. Multi-Effect-Coupling Thermal-Stimulus (MECtherm) Model for Temperature-Sensitive Hydrogel

    • Hua Li
    Pages 219-293

  7. Novel Models for Smart Hydrogel Responsive to Other Stimuli: Glucose Concentration and Ionic Strength

    • Hua Li
    Pages 295-333

  8. Simulation of Controlled Drug Release from Non-Swellable Micro-Hydrogel Particle

    • Hua Li
    Pages 335-346

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 347-359
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The science of mathematical modelling and numerical simulation is generally accepted as the third mode of scienti?c discovery (with the other two modes being experiment and analysis), making this ?eld an integral component of c- ting edge scienti?c and industrial research in most domains. This is especially so in advanced biomaterials such as polymeric hydrogels responsive to biostimuli for a wide range of potential BioMEMS applications, where multiphysics and mul- phase are common requirements. These environmental stimuli-responsive hydrogels are often known as smart hydrogels. In the published studies on the smart or stimu- responsive hydrogels, the literature search clearly indicates that the vast majority are experimental based. In particular, although there are a few published books on the smart hydrogels, none is involved in the modelling of smart hydrogels. For the few published journal papers that conducted mathematical modelling and numerical simulation, results were far from satisfactory, and showed signi?cant d- crepancies when compared with existing experimental data. This has resulted in ad hoc studies of these hydrogel materials mainly conducted by trial and error. This is a very time-consuming and inef?cient process, and certain aspects of fun- mental knowledge are often missed or overlooked, resulting in off-tangent research directions.

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  • College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Hua Li

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