A comprehensive review is presented of the physical behavior of yield stress materials in
soft condensed matter, which encompasses a broad range of materials from colloidal …

In the last two decades, advances in synthetic, experimental and modeling/simulation
methodologies have considerably enhanced our understanding of colloidal suspension …

Presenting current knowledge in the field of mudflows, this book includes both rheological
mudflow aspects, and information on mudflow characteristics in open channels. It includes …

In this review, I present an idiosyncratic view of the current state of shear banding in complex
fluids. Particular attention is paid to some of the outstanding issues and questions facing the …

Giant micelles are elongated, polymer-like objects created by the self-assembly of
amphiphilic molecules (such as detergents) in solution. Giant micelles are typically flexible …

We review theories and experiments on the effects of shear in fluids undergoing phase
transitions. We put emphasis on near-critical fluids and polymer solutions as representative …

Materials such as foams, concentrated emulsions, dense suspensions or colloidal gels, are
yield stress fluids. Their steady flow behavior, characterized by standard rheometric …

Some colloidal suspensions with a thixotropic behavior and yield stress also display a
minimum stress in their flow curves. One of these is an aqueous suspension of synthetic …

Wormlike micelles are elongated and semi-flexible aggregates resulting from the self-
assembly of surfactant molecules in aqueous solutions. In the general context of complex …

We report experiments on hard-sphere colloidal glasses that show a type of shear banding
hitherto unobserved in soft glasses. We present a scenario that relates this to an instability …