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Joselle M. McCracken

Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Publications -  22
Citations -  1278

Joselle M. McCracken is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Elastomer & Self-healing hydrogels. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 18 publications receiving 830 citations. Previous affiliations of Joselle M. McCracken include Wright-Patterson Air Force Base & University of Colorado Boulder.

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Materials as Machines

TL;DR: This review summarizes the material transformation mechanisms, mechanical design, and robotic integration of responsive materials including shape memory alloys, piezoelectrics, dielectric elastomer actuators, ionic electroactive polymers, pneumatics and hydraulics systems, shape memory polymers (SMPs), hydrogels, and liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) and networks.
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Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers

TL;DR: A review of the synthesis and processing of liquid crystalline elastomers can be found in this paper, where the authors examine the mechanical response of LCEs to stimuli and survey approaches for mechanical alignment, surface-enforced alignment, field-induced alignment and rheological alignment.
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Ionic Hydrogels with Biomimetic 4D-Printed Mechanical Gradients: Models for Soft-Bodied Aquatic Organisms

TL;DR: Direct-ink writing (DIW) as mentioned in this paper is a rapidly growing and advancing form of additive manufacturing, providing capacities for on-demand tailoring of materials to meet specific requirements for final designs.
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Programming Mechanical and Physicochemical Properties of 3D Hydrogel Cellular Microcultures via Direct Ink Writing

TL;DR: 3D scaffold mechanics are investigated using atomic force microscopy and their absorption kinetics are determined by confocal fluorescence microscopy for a series of hydrated hydrogel films prepared from prepolymers with different homopolymer‐to‐monomer (Mr) ratios.