Citation: Eigenbrode SD, Binns WP and Huggins DR (2018) Confronting Climate Change Challenges to Dryland Cereal Production: A Call for Collaborative, Transdisciplinary Research, and Producer Engagement. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:164. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00164 Confronting Climate Change Challenges to Dryland Cereal Production: A Call for Collaborative, Transdisciplinary Research, and Producer Enga...

This paper explores fundamental mechanisms of negatively thermodynamic toughening during microphase separations double network (DN) hydrogels, which have dynamically coordinating components with adjustable swelling behavior and designable multi-shape memory effect (multi-SME). Based on the Flory–Huggins theory Fick's second law, a model is formulated to study diffusive dynamics, cooling-trigger...

pH-responsive hydrogels are capable of converting chemical energy to mechanical work. To optimize their use as actuators, their response when operating against an external load must be fully characterized. Here, the actuation strain of a model pH-sensitive hydrogel as a function of different constant loads is studied. The experimental actuation strain, produced by switching the pH from 2 to 12,...

We investigate interfacial properties between two highly incompatible polymers of different stiffness. The extensive Monte Carlo simulations of the binary polymer melt yield detailed interfacial profiles and the interfacial tension via an analysis of capillary fluctuations. We extract an effective Flory-Huggins parameter from the simulations, which is used in self-consistent field calculations....

We present a self-consistent field theory model for the self-assembly behavior of rod-coil block copolymers. The orientational interactions between the rods were modeled through a Maier-Saupe interaction, while the enthalpic interactions between rods and coils were modeled through a standard Flory-Huggins approach. We outline a "real-space" numerical approach to solve the self-consistent field ...

Following the work by Gerbode, Yee, and Rundle (1949) concerning successful atriocaval anastomosis, many experimental and clinical reports have emerged reporting the results of patching defects or replacing segments of the superior vena cava. Autologous (Deterling and Bhonslay, 1955), homologous (Ashburn, Sewell, and Huggins, 1956; Holman and Steinberg, 1954), heterologous, and plastic grafts (...

Citation: Chi J, Maureira F, Waldo S, Pressley SN, Stöckle CO, O’Keeffe PT, Pan WL, Brooks ES, Huggins DR and Lamb BK (2017) Carbon and Water Budgets in Multiple Wheat-Based Cropping Systems in the Inland Pacific Northwest US: Comparison of CropSyst Simulations with Eddy Covariance Measurements. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:50. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00050 Carbon and Water Budgets in Multiple Wheat-Bas...

In this paper, we derive the time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation from continuum mixture theory with a modification of Fick's law diffusion. This model describes process phase separation nonlocal memory effects. We analyze existence, uniqueness, and regularity weak solutions equation. regard, consider degenerating mobility functions free energies Landau, Flory--Huggins double-obstacle type. a...