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Soft Condensed Matter Physics [PDF]

Solid State Communications, 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
arxiv   +7 more sources

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 quantification, and therapeutic techniques that exploit the physical principles of cavitation.
Barney CW, Dougan CE, McLeod KR, Kazemi-Moridani A, Zheng Y, Ye Z, Tiwari S, Sacligil I, Riggleman RA, Cai S, Lee JH, Peyton SR, Tew GN, Crosby AJ.   +13 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Electrostatics in soft matter [PDF]

arXiv, 2008
Recent progress in the understanding of the effect of electrostatics in soft matter is presented. A vast amount of materials contains ions ranging from the molecular scale (e.g., electrolyte) to the meso/macroscopic one (e.g., charged colloidal particles or polyelectrolytes). Their (micro)structure and physicochemical properties are especially dictated
René Messina
arxiv   +10 more sources

Soft matter roadmap^*

Journal of Physics: Materials, 2023
AbstractSoft 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. The importance of soft materials in everyday commodity products, as well as in technological applications,
Barrat, Jean-Louis, del Gado, Emanuela, Egelhaaf, Stefan, Mao, Xiaoming, Dijkstra, Marjolein, Pine, David, Kumar, Sanat, Bishop, Kyle, Gang, Oleg, Obermeyer, Allie, Papadakis, Christine, Tsitsilianis, Costantinos, Smalyukh, Ivan, Hourlier-Fargette, Aurelie, Andrieux, Sebastien, Drenckhan, Wiebke, Wagner, Norman, Murphy, Ryan, Weeks, Eric, Cerbino, Roberto, Han, Yilong, Cipelletti, Luca, Ramos, Laurence, Poon, Wilson, Richards, James, Cohen, Itai, Furst, Eric, Nelson, Alshakim, Craig, Stephen, Ganapathy, Rajesh, Sood, Ajay Kumar, Sciortino, Francesco, Mungan, Muhittin, Sastry, Srikanth, Scheibner, Colin, Fruchart, Michel, Vitelli, Vincenzo, Ridout, S., Stern, M., Tah, I., Zhang, G., Liu, Andrea, Osuji, Chinedum, Xu, Yuan, Shewan, Heather, Stokes, Jason, Merkel, Matthias, Ronceray, Pierre, Rupprecht, Jean-François, Matsarskaia, Olga, Schreiber, Frank, Roosen-Runge, Felix, Aubin-Tam, Marie-Eve, Koenderink, Gijsje, Espinosa-Marzal, Rosa, Yus, Joaquin, Kwon, Jiheon   +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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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, Li CY, Pan JT, Ji YE, Jiang C, Zheng R, Wang ZY, Wang Y, Li BX, Lu YQ.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Topology in soft and biological matter

Physics Reports
The last years have witnessed remarkable advances in our understanding of the emergence and consequences of topological constraints in biological and soft matter. Examples are abundant in relation to (bio)polymeric systems and range from the characterization of knots in single polymers and proteins to that of whole chromosomes and polymer melts. At the
Tubiana, Luca, Alexander, Gareth P, Barbensi, Agnese, Buck, Dorothy, Cartwright, Julyan H.E, Chwastyk, Mateusz, Cieplak, Marek, Coluzza, Ivan, Čopar, Simon, Craik, David J, Di Stefano, Marco, Everaers, Ralf, Faísca, Patrícia F.N, Ferrari, Franco, Giacometti, Achille, Goundaroulis, Dimos, Haglund, Ellinor, Hou, Ya-Ming, Ilieva, Nevena, Jackson, Sophie E, Japaridze, Aleksandre, Kaplan, Noam, Klotz, Alexander R, Li, Hongbin, Likos, Christos N, Locatelli, Emanuele, López-León, Teresa, Machon, Thomas, Micheletti, Cristian, Michieletto, Davide, Niemi, Antti, Niemyska, Wanda, Niewieczerzal, Szymon, Nitti, Francesco, Orlandini, Enzo, Pasquali, Samuela, Perlinska, Agata P, Podgornik, Rudolf, Potestio, Raffaello, Pugno, Nicola M, Ravnik, Miha, Ricca, Renzo, Rohwer, Christian M, Rosa, Angelo, Smrek, Jan, Souslov, Anton, Stasiak, Andrzej, Steer, Danièle, Sułkowska, Joanna, Sułkowski, Piotr, Sumners, de Witt L, Svaneborg, Carsten, Szymczak, Piotr, Tarenzi, Thomas, Travasso, Rui, Virnau, Peter, Vlassopoulos, Dimitris, Ziherl, Primož, Žumer, Slobodan   +58 more
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A soft matter computer for soft robots [PDF]

Science Robotics, 2019
Conductive fluid receptors can be used to create soft matter computers that are suitable for the control of soft robots.
M. Garrad, G. Soter, A. T. Conn, H. Hauser, J. Rossiter   +4 more
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Optical Supercavitation in Soft Matter [PDF]

2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2010
We investigate theoretically, numerically and experimentally nonlinear optical waves in an absorbing out-of-equilibrium colloidal material at the gelification transition. At sufficiently high optical intensity, absorption is frustrated and light propagates into the medium. The process is mediated by the formation of a matter-shock wave due to optically
Claudio Conti, E. DelRe
openalex   +11 more sources

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, Marina Krekhova, Guenter Lattermann, Ingo Rehberg, R. Richter   +4 more
arxiv   +3 more sources