Adolphe Merkle Institute

Supramolecular Mechanophore Additives Enable Mechanochromic Hydrogels

ABSTRACT Mechanochromic hydrogels that report deformation through optical signals require mechanophores that function in aqueous environments, are activated at low force, and allow integration into the hydrogel matrix. Here, we report a new strategy to address these challenges th...

The chiral gyrating H’-T surface family: construction from the dual qtz – qzd nets and existence proof using a toroidal Weierstrass method

Abstract This paper provides an existence proof for a one-parameter family of chiral unbalanced triply periodic minimal surfaces of genus four. We name these gyrating H’-T surfaces because they are related to Schoen’s H’-T surfaces in a similar way as the gyroid is to the primiti...