%0 Journal Article %D 2014 %T Swelling dynamics of a thin elastomeric sheet under uniaxial pre-stretch %A Alessandro Lucantonio %A Paola Nardinocchi %A Howard A. Stone %X It has been demonstrated experimentally that pre-stretch affects the swelling of an elastomeric membrane when it is exposed to a solvent. We study theoretically the one-dimensional swelling of a pre-stretched thin elastomeric sheet, bonded to an impermeable rigid substrate, to quantify the influence of pre-stretch. We show that the solvent uptake increases when pre-stretch increases, both at equilibrium and during the swelling transient, where it exhibits two different scaling regimes. The coupling between the solvent uptake and pre-stretch may be practically exploited to design soft actuators where the swelling-induced deformations can be controlled by varying the pre-stretch. %I American Institute of Physics %G en %U http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35113 %1 35370 %2 Physics %4 1 %$ Submitted by gfeltrin@sissa.it (gfeltrin@sissa.it) on 2015-12-02T16:28:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 art2014.pdf: 777840 bytes, checksum: 2362b6250fd872264208d0d3b846a551 (MD5) %R 10.1063/1.4866576