The behavior of capillary suspensions at diverse length scales: from single capillary bridges to bulk

S Bindgen, J Allard, E Koos - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Liquid-liquid-solid systems are becoming increasingly common in everyday life with many
possible applications. Here, we focus on a special case of such liquid-liquid-solid systems …

The hidden hierarchical nature of soft particulate gels

M Bantawa, B Keshavarz, M Geri, M Bouzid, T Divoux… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Soft particulate gels are composed of a small amount of particulate matter dispersed in a
continuous fluid phase. The solid components assemble to form a porous matrix, providing …

Colloidal gel elasticity arises from the packing of locally glassy clusters

KA Whitaker, Z Varga, LC Hsiao, MJ Solomon… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Colloidal gels formed by arrested phase separation are found widely in agriculture,
biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing; yet, the emergence of elasticity and the nature …

Direct link between mechanical stability in gels and percolation of isostatic particles

H Tsurusawa, M Leocmach, J Russo, H Tanaka - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Colloidal gels have unique mechanical and transport properties that stem from their
bicontinuous nature, in which a colloidal network is intertwined with a viscous solvent, and …

Control of Nanoscale In Situ Protein Unfolding Defines Network Architecture and Mechanics of Protein Hydrogels

MDG Hughes, BS Hanson, S Cussons, N Mahmoudi… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hierarchical assemblies of proteins exhibit a wide-range of material properties that are
exploited both in nature and by artificially by humankind. However, little is understood about …

Tuning protein hydrogel mechanics through modulation of nanoscale unfolding and entanglement in postgelation relaxation

MDG Hughes, S Cussons, N Mahmoudi, DJ Brockwell… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Globular folded proteins are versatile nanoscale building blocks to create biomaterials with
mechanical robustness and inherent biological functionality due to their specific and well …

Hierarchical amorphous ordering in colloidal gelation

H Tsurusawa, H Tanaka - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Amorphous gels are formed in various soft matter and biomatter when phase separation is
dynamically arrested without crystallization. The dynamic arrest in gelation has been …

Thermoresponsive protein-engineered coiled-coil hydrogel for sustained small molecule release

LK Hill, M Meleties, P Katyal, X Xie… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Thermoresponsive hydrogels are used for an array of biomedical applications. Lower critical
solution temperature-type hydrogels have been observed in nature and extensively studied …

Emergence of rigidity percolation in flowing granular systems

H Dashti, AA Saberi, SHE Rahbari, J Kurths - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Jammed granular media and glasses exhibit spatial long-range correlations as a result of
mechanical equilibrium. However, the existence of such correlations in the flowing matter …

Shearing induced ordered structures in two-dimensional nanomaterials-based electrodes for boosted pseudocapacitive kinetics

Z Xiong, Y Cao, WJ Jiang, L Zu, Q Liang, D Li - Energy Storage Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have been extensively pursued as functional
electrodes in electrochemical energy storage devices. Numerous efforts have been devoted …