@article{39221,
  keywords = {Water, Kinetics, transport, phase-transition, charged surfaces, polyacrylamide gels, polyelectrolytes, polymer gels, self-assembly process, ultrathin multilayer films},
  author = {Achilleos and Prud{\textquoteright}homme and Kevrekidis and Christodoulou and Gee},
  title = {Quantifying deformation in gel swelling: Experiments and simulations},
  abstract = { A technique for the real-time visualization of material line movement during transparent gel deformation was developed based on caged photo-activated fluorophores covalently attached to the gel network. It is used to quantitatively monitor the swelling of sodium polyacrylate and poly(acrylamide-sodium acrylate) gels in quasi two-dimensional constrained geometries. The experimentally obtained profiles for the Finger deformation tensor and the polymer concentration are compared with transient simulations of a model of transport in polyelectrolyte gels. },
  year = {2000},
  journal = {Aiche JournalAiche Journal},
  volume = {46},
  pages = {2128-2139},
  month = {11/2000},
  isbn = {0001-1541},
  language = {English},
}