The review is devoted to the analysis of the current state of understanding relationships
among the deformation-induced structure transformations, observed rheological properties …

Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are
encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of …

Soft materials that are subjected to large deformations exhibit an extremely rich
phenomenology, with properties lying in between those of simple fluids and those of elastic …

Synthetic polymers are thoroughly embedded in the modern society and their consumption
grows annually. Efficient routes to their production and processing have never been more …

Microplastics are ubiquitous in the natural environment and have the potential to endanger
the natural environment, ecology and even human health. A series of microfluidic …

The breakup and coalescence of drops are elementary topological transitions in interfacial
flows. The breakup of a drop changes dramatically when polymers are added to the fluid …

Utilisation of plant waste materials contributes to sustainable food production and allows
preparation of functional ingredients from natural bio-materials. Microfibrillated cellulose …

The dynamics of capillary breakup of a fluid thread of a dilute polymer solution near the Θ-
point is studied using a molecular approach. Several regimes arising during the …

When a drop of fluid containing long, flexible polymers breaks up, it forms threads of almost
constant thickness, whose size decreases exponentially in time. Using an Oldroyd-B fluid as …

When pushed out of a syringe, polymer solutions form droplets attached by long and slender
cylindrical filaments whose diameter decreases exponentially with time before eventually …