Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

Shear thickening of suspensions is studied by discrete-particle simulation, accounting for
hydrodynamic, repulsive, and contact forces. The contact forces, including friction, are …

Discrete-particle simulations of bidisperse shear thickening suspensions are reported. The
work considers two packing parameters, the largeto-small particle radius ratio ranging from …

Discontinuous shear thickening (DST) is associated with a sharp rise in a suspension's
viscosity with increasing applied shear rate or stress. Key signatures of DST, highlighted in …

Jamming is an athermal transition between flowing and rigid states in amorphous systems
such as granular matter, colloidal suspensions, complex fluids and cells. The jamming …

Prestress in amorphous solids bears the memory of their formation and plays a profound
role in their mechanical properties. Here we develop a set of mathematical tools to …

Systems driven far from equilibrium often retain structural memories of their processing
history. This memory has, in some cases, been shown to dramatically alter the material …

Strain-controlled criticality governs the elasticity of jamming and fiber networks. While the
upper critical dimension of jamming is believed to be du= 2, non-mean-field exponents are …

Increase in viscosity under increasing shear stress, known as shear thickening (ST), is one
of the most striking properties of dense particulate suspensions. Under appropriate …

Dense suspensions of particles in viscous liquid often demonstrate the striking phenomenon
of abrupt shear thickening, where their viscosity increases strongly with increase of the …