Aims: Cardiomyocyte swelling occurs in multiple pathological situations and has been associated with contractile dysfunction, cell death, and enhanced propensity to arrhythmias. We investigate whether hypotonic swelling ...

The swelling/deswelling transition of pH-sensitive, electrode-grafted, hydrogel nanofilms when exposed to electric fields is studied by theoretical analysis. In acidic conditions, the response of these films to changes in ...

This work presents an electrospun nanofibrous membrane for water treatment, designed to reduce its pores through polymer swelling to retain contaminants, and after that, reopening them for easy cleaning. It consists of a ...

PVA hydrogels obtained by freeze-thaw technique find important applications in regenerative medicine and controlled drug delivery technologies. The novelty of this contribution is the establishment of the cross-dependency ...

The tunable swelling and mechanical properties of nanostructures polymers are crucial parameters for the creation of adaptive devices to be used in diverse fields, such as drug delivery, nanomedicine, and tissue engineering. ...

Water uptake by capillarity is widely used for characterising the durability properties of building materials. However, cementitious materials are generally reported with an anomalous behaviour in relation to other ...

The hydrophilic nature of hydrogels allows their swelling in aqueous solutions. In that way, any substance loaded inside the gel is exposed to the aqueous media and could be released if it is soluble in water. However, ...