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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 ...
Christopher W. Barney +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.
A. Magazzù, C. Marcuello
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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.
Lingling Ma +9 more
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Soft quasicrystals - Why are they stable? [PDF]
Phil. Mag. 87 (2007) 3021-3030., 2006 In the last two years we have witnessed the exciting experimental discovery of soft matter with nontrivial quasiperiodic long-range order - a new form of matter termed a soft quasicrystal. Two groups have independently discovered such order in soft matter: Zeng et al.
Anderson PW +25 more
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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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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
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James Fergason, a Pioneer in Advancing of Liquid Crystal Technology [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 James Lee Fergason (1934 - 2008) focused his research on the liquid crystals. His studies correspond to a relevant part of the history of soft matter science and technology of liquid crystals. Here a discussion of some of his researches.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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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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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 ...
F. Lehmkühler +18 more
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