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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Biomaterials Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics

Background:

  • Shear stress from fluid flow can induce symmetry breaking in spatial structures.
  • Chitosan, a versatile biopolymer, is a candidate for creating novel soft biomaterials.
  • Controlling surface morphology is crucial for biomaterial applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate surface instabilities on chitosan tubes induced by fluid injection.
  • To characterize the resulting patterns (wrinkles and folds) and their dependence on flow rate and solution concentration.
  • To establish scaling laws for pattern wavelength and amplitude.

Main Methods:

  • Injection of acidic chitosan solutions into sodium hydroxide solutions.
  • Observation and characterization of surface pattern formation under varying flow rates and alkaline concentrations.
  • Analysis of pattern wavelength and amplitude in relation to tube properties.

Main Results:

  • Slow flow rates produced a wrinkle-to-fold transition, forming banded structures along the flow direction.
  • Higher injection rates resulted in coexisting wrinkle and fold modes.
  • Increased alkaline concentration stabilized patterns into periodic wrinkles.

Conclusions:

  • Fluid flow-induced mechanical instabilities can be leveraged to create patterned chitosan tubes.
  • The study provides a template-free, in situ method for fabricating soft biomaterials with tunable surface morphologies.
  • This approach offers a new route for designing advanced biomaterials with specific surface features.