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An article resulting from a collaboration between researchers at the gulliver and simm labs at espci, and the loma lab at université de bordeaux has been published in the journal langmuir (22 january 2025).
For this collaboration, the researchers observed the morphology of a hydrogel layer that successively undergoes a swelling phase by hydration and then a drying phase.
The article is featured on the cover of Langmuir for the month of February, 2025.
Article reference:
Swelling and Evaporation Determine Surface Morphology of Grafted Hydrogel Thin Films
Caroline Kopecz-Muller, Clémence Gaunand, Yvette Tran, Matthieu Labousse, Elie Raphaël, Thomas Salez, Finn Box, and Joshua D. McGraw
Langmuir (2025)