title: Quasi-unidirectional shrinkage of gels with well-oriented lipid bilayers upon uniaxial stretching.
abstract: PDGI-PAAm gels with well oriented lipid bilayers show a quasi-unidirectional shrinkage upon uniaxial stretching along the bilayers. They shrink largely parallel to the bilayer but slightly perpendicular to it in order not to increase the bilayer area and its interfacial energy. Such an anisotropic deformation can be well-modelled based on classical theories for gel networks and lipid layers.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-10-Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan. tasuku@sci.hokudai.ac.jp gong@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Tasuku
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: Corentin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Durand
authors.forename: Xu Feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Md Anamul
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Haque
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurokawa
authors.forename: Jian Ping
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Gong
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005782:Gels / Q000737:chemistry; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry*; D054159:Torsion, Mechanical
chemical_list: D005782:Gels; D008051:Lipid Bilayers