Swell induced stress in a hydrogel coating

• 作者: Shuyang Wang Zhengjin Wang Yan Yang Tongqing Lu
• 来源期刊: 力学学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（5）
• 所属期刊栏目: THEMED PAPERS ON "MECHANICS OF SOFT MATERIALS AND FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES"
• 页码范围: 797-802
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

A hydrogel can be coated on various substrates to enable multiple functions.Potential applications include biomedical devices,anti-fouling surfaces and microfluidics.In practical use,hydrogel coatings are often submerged in fluids.The swell of hydrogel coating deteriorates the interfacial bonding with the substrate.This paper presents a stress analysis of a hydrogel coating on a cylindrical metal substrate.We adopt the thermodynamic theory coupling large deformation and water migra-tion and formulate two boundary value problems for the coating-substrate system with and without an interfacial crack.The inhomogeneous stress fields in the hydrogel coating are obtained.The influences of modulus,thickness of the hydrogel coating on the maximum radial stress at the interface are analyzed.These results may guide the design of hydrogel coating to avoid interfacial failure.