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Soft Condensed Matter Physics [PDF]
, 1996 Soft condensed matter physics is the study of materials, such as fluids, liquid crystals, polymers, colloids, and emulsions, that are ``soft" to the touch. This article will review some properties, such as the dominance of entropy, that are unique to soft materials and some properties such as the interplay between broken-symmetry, dynamic mode ...
T. C. Lubensky
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Cavitation in soft matter. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Cavitation is the sudden, unstable expansion of a void or bubble within a liquid or solid subjected to a negative hydrostatic stress. Cavitation rheology is a field emerging from the development of a suite of materials characterization, damage ...
Barney CW +13 more
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Investigation of Soft Matter Nanomechanics by Atomic Force Microscopy and Optical Tweezers: A Comprehensive Review. [PDF]
Nanomaterials (Basel), 2023 Soft matter exhibits a multitude of intrinsic physico-chemical attributes. Their mechanical properties are crucial characteristics to define their performance.
Magazzù A, Marcuello C.
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Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics. [PDF]
Light Sci Appl, 2022 Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional orders, and diverse optic and photonic applications.
Ma LL +9 more
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Slow dynamics, aging, and glassy rheology in soft and living matter [PDF]
, 2006 We explore the origins of slow dynamics, aging and glassy rheology in soft and living matter. Non-diffusive slow dynamics and aging in materials characterised by crowding of the constituents can be explained in terms of structural rearrangement or ...
Ranjini Bandyopadhyay +3 more
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Electrostatic interactions in strongly coupled soft matter [PDF]
, 2005 Charged soft-matter systems--such as colloidal dispersions and charged polymers--are dominated by attractive forces between constituent like-charged particles when neutralizing counterions of high charge valency are introduced.
Ali Naji +3 more
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Slow dynamics in glassy soft matter
, 2005 Measuring, characterizing and modelling the slow dynamics of glassy soft matter is a great challenge, with an impact that ranges from industrial applications to fundamental issues in modern statistical physics, such as the glass transition and the ...
Luca Cipelletti, Laurence Ramos
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Surface Instabilities and Magnetic Soft Matter [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 We report on the formation of surface instabilities in a layer of thermoreversible ferrogel when exposed to a vertical magnetic field. Both static and time dependent magnetic fields are employed. Under variations of temperature, the viscoelastic properties of our soft magnetic matter can be tuned.
Christian Gollwitzer +4 more
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Stochastic resonance in soft matter systems: combined effects of static and dynamic disorder [PDF]
, 2008 We study the impact of static and dynamic disorder on the phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR) in a representative soft matter system. Due to their extreme susceptibility to weak perturbations soft matter systems appear to be excellent candidates for ...
Matjaž Perc, Marko Gosak, Samo Kralj
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Emergence of anomalous dynamics in soft matter probed at the European XFEL. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance The European XFEL is a hard X-ray Free-Electron Laser (FEL) with pulse repetition rates in the megahertz regime. Thus, sample dynamics in the microsecond and submicrosecond regime can be accessed by means of X-ray photon correlation ...
Lehmkühler F +18 more
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