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45
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10672
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5362
National Ranking
1502

Overview

Randy H. Ewoldt is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within engineering and materials science, with a focus on the dynamics and properties of complex fluids and polymers.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics including fluid mechanics, materials chemistry, and polymer science. Notable papers include "Exosome-coated oxygen nanobubble-laden hydrogel augments intracellular delivery of exosomes for enhanced wound healing" (2024, Nature Communications), "Designing Complex Fluids" (2021, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics), "Relaxation of Vitrimers with Kinetically Distinct Mixed Dynamic Bonds" (2022, Macromolecules), "Experimental Protocols for Studying Organic Non-aqueous Redox Flow Batteries" (2021, ACS Energy Letters), and "Self-Regulative Direct Ink Writing of Frontally Polymerizing Thermoset Polymers" (2022, Advanced Materials Technologies).

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Mohammad Tanver Hossain, Sameh Tawfick, Yilin Wang, Nancy R. Sottos, and Philippe H. Geubelle.

Their work has been published in several venues, with repeated contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), the Journal of Rheology, Macromolecules, Advanced Materials, and Physics of Fluids.

The primary fields of study covered by their research are:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Within these fields, the subfields they have focused on include:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Biomedical Engineering

The main research topics addressed in their work are:

  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Photopolymerization techniques and applications
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Best Publications

  • A review of nonlinear oscillatory shear tests: Analysis and application of large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS)

    Kyu Hyun;Manfred Wilhelm;Christopher O. Klein;Kwang Soo Cho

  • New measures for characterizing nonlinear viscoelasticity in large amplitude oscillatory shear

    Randy H. Ewoldt;A. E. Hosoi;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Fingerprinting Soft Materials: A Framework for Characterizing Nonlinear Viscoelasticity

    Randy H. Ewoldt;Gareth H. McKinley;A. E. Hosoi

  • Helicobacter pylori moves through mucus by reducing mucin viscoelasticity

    Jonathan P. Celli;Bradley S. Turner;Nezam H. Afdhal;Sarah Keates

  • Large amplitude oscillatory shear of pseudoplastic and elastoviscoplastic materials

    Randy H. Ewoldt;Peter Winter;Jason Maxey;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Rheology of gastric mucin exhibits a pH-dependent sol-gel transition.

    Jonathan P. Celli;Bradley S. Turner;Nezam H. Afdhal;Randy H. Ewoldt

  • Experimental Challenges of Shear Rheology: How to Avoid Bad Data

    Randy H. Ewoldt;Michael T. Johnston;Lucas M. Caretta

  • Describing and prescribing the constitutive response of yield stress fluids using large amplitude oscillatory shear stress (LAOStress)

    Christopher J. Dimitriou;Randy H. Ewoldt;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Rheological fingerprinting of gastropod pedal mucus and synthetic complex fluids for biomimicking adhesive locomotion

    Randy H. Ewoldt;Christian Clasen;A. E. Hosoi;Gareth H. McKinley

  • On secondary loops in LAOS via self-intersection of Lissajous–Bowditch curves

    Randy H. Ewoldt;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Low-dimensional intrinsic material functions for nonlinear viscoelasticity

    Randy H. Ewoldt;N. Ashwin Bharadwaj

  • Large amplitude oscillatory shear flow of gluten dough: A model power-law gel

    Trevor S. K. Ng;Gareth H. McKinley;Randy H. Ewoldt

  • Defining nonlinear rheological material functions for oscillatory shear

    Randy H. Ewoldt

  • A microcomposite hydrogel for repeated on-demand ultrasound-triggered drug delivery

    Hila Epstein-Barash;Gizem Orbey;Baris E. Polat;Randy H. Ewoldt

  • Quantifying compressive forces between living cell layers and within tissues using elastic round microgels.

    Erfan Mohagheghian;Erfan Mohagheghian;Junyu Luo;Junjian Chen;Gaurav Chaudhary

  • Nonlinear viscoelastic biomaterials: Meaningful characterization and engineering inspiration

    Randy H. Ewoldt;Anette E. Hosoi;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Design of yield-stress fluids: a rheology-to-structure inverse problem

    Arif Z. Nelson;Randy H. Ewoldt

  • Mechanically active materials in three-dimensional mesostructures

    Xin Ning;Xinge Yu;Heling Wang;Rujie Sun

  • Mapping thixo-elasto-visco-plastic behavior

    Randy H. Ewoldt;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Designing and transforming yield-stress fluids

    Arif Z. Nelson;Arif Z. Nelson;Kenneth S. Schweizer;Brittany M. Rauzan;Ralph G. Nuzzo

  • Temporal Modulation of Stem Cell Activity Using Magnetoactive Hydrogels.

    Amr A. Abdeen;Junmin Lee;N. Ashwin Bharadwaj;Randy H. Ewoldt

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul V. Braun
Paul V. Braun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth S. Schweizer
Kenneth S. Schweizer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher W. Macosko
Christopher W. Macosko University of Minnesota
Jonathan B. Freund
Jonathan B. Freund University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ralph G. Nuzzo
Ralph G. Nuzzo University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tao Li
Tao Li Dongguan University of Technology
Rajeev S. Assary
Rajeev S. Assary Argonne National Laboratory
Ilya A. Shkrob
Ilya A. Shkrob Argonne National Laboratory
William P. King
William P. King University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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