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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 ...
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Journal of Physics: Materials, 2023 Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples are colloids, polymers, amphiphiles, liquid crystals, foams.
J.-L. Barrat +56 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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Discovering giant magnetoelasticity in soft matter for electronic textiles. [PDF]
Matter, 2021 Chen G +7 more
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Critical Casimir forces in soft matter. [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2023 We review recent advances in the theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of critical Casimir forces in soft matter, with particular emphasis on their relevance for the structures of colloidal suspensions and on their dynamics.
A. Gambassi, S. Dietrich
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Worm blobs as entangled living polymers: from topological active matter to flexible soft robot collectives [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2023 Recently, the study of long, slender living worms has gained attention due to their unique ability to form highly entangled physical structures, exhibiting emergent behaviors.
A. Deblais +8 more
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Non-Maxwellian viscoelastic stress relaxations in soft matter. [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2022 Viscoelastic stress relaxation is a basic characteristic of soft matter systems such as colloids, gels, and biological networks. Although the Maxwell model of linear viscoelasticity provides a classical description of stress relaxation, it is often not ...
Jake Song +2 more
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Spontaneous electric-polarization topology in confined ferroelectric nematics
Nature Communications, 2022 Though magnetic and electric states are closely related, many magnetic states cannot find their electric counterparts. Here, the authors report electric variants of merons in thin films of the emerging liquid-matter state, i.e., ferroelectric nematic.
Jidan Yang +5 more
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Time-dependent mechanical behavior of tough hydrogels under multiaxial stretching
International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, 2023 Understanding the time-dependent mechanical behavior of tough and viscoelastic hydrogels under complex external loading is crucial. In this study, we utilized tough and viscoelastic hydrogels synthesized through the copolymerization of methacrylic acid ...
Yong Liu +6 more
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