@article{38941, keywords = {Water, behavior, flow, concentration field, deformation visualization, gel swelling, interferometry, material line tagging, motion}, author = {Achilleos and Prud{\textquoteright}homme and Christodoulou and Gee and Kevrekidis}, title = {Dynamic deformation visualization in swelling of polymer gels}, abstract = { A technique for the real-time visualization of transparent gel deformation is developed, based on caged photo-activated fluorophores covalently attached to the gel network. The technique is used to quantitatively monitor the swelling of quasi two-dimensional sodium polyacrylate gels in a constrained geometry. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. }, year = {2000}, journal = {Chemical Engineering ScienceChemical Engineering Science}, volume = {55}, pages = {3335-3340}, month = {09/2000}, isbn = {0009-2509}, language = {English}, }