A theoretical perspective is provided on the glass transition in molecular liquids at thermal
equilibrium, on the spatially heterogeneous and aging dynamics of disordered materials …

Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

The archetypal feature of a viscoplastic fluid is its yield stress: If the material is not sufficiently
stressed, it behaves like a solid, but once the yield stress is exceeded, the material flows like …

As one increases the concentration of a colloidal suspension, the system exhibits a dramatic
increase in viscosity. Beyond a certain concentration, the system is said to be a colloidal …

Research on soft materials, including colloidal suspensions, glasses, pastes, emulsions,
foams, polymer networks, liquid crystals, granular materials, and cells, has captured the …

We report a number of experiments, mainly rheological measurements, examining the
yielding behavior of colloidal glasses with hard-sphere interaction plus a short-range …

While there exists a unified theoretical framework–Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics–to
describe the failure of homogeneous materials, understanding and modeling the …

We report a simple correlation between microstructure and strain-dependent elasticity in
colloidal gels by visualizing the evolution of cluster structure in high strain-rate flows. We …

The effects of particle softness and the role of the outer shell mechanics on the linear
viscoelasticity and yielding behaviour of colloidal glasses are critically assessed using three …

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 …