“…The solvent molecules can interact with each other as well as with the polymer structure, and also migrate in and out of the swollen aggregate. The theory of mass transport in the continuum solids dates back to Tanaka and Fillmore (1979), and have been further developed for the description of coupled deformation and diffusion with application to the response of hydrogels, including swelling and deswelling induced by mechanical deformation and forced fluid permeation (Bayat, Wang, & Baghani, 2020;Duda, Souza, & Fried, 2010;Sauerwein & Steeb, 2020). The purpose of this work is to develop a thermodynamically consistent large-deformation theory on the continuum level for the description of EVA polymer-solvent system in the PV recycling, so as to provide guidance to the design of experimental procedures for the nondestructive recovery of ultrathin and brittle silicon wafers.…”