Soft materials often exhibit a distinctive power-law viscoelastic response arising from broad
distribution of time-scales present in their complex internal structure. A promising tool to …

Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays
and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical …

Many soft materials yield under mechanical loading, but how this transition from solid-like
behavior to liquid-like behavior occurs can vary significantly. Understanding the physics of …

Elastoviscoplastic materials present a transition from a gel-like to a liquidlike state induced
by shearing: While the first is primarily elastic, the second is predominantly viscous. The …

Rigidity percolation (RP) occurs when mechanical stability emerges in disordered networks
as constraints or components are added. Here we discuss RP with structural correlations, an …

The structural complexity of soft gels is at the origin of a versatile mechanical response that
allows for large deformation, controlled elastic recovery, and toughness in the same …

Upon sustained loading, colloidal gels tend to feature delayed viscoplastic creep
deformations. However, the relationship, if any, between the structure and creep dynamics of …

To enable robust rheological measurements of the properties of yield stress fluids, we
introduce a class of modified vane fixtures with fractal-like cross-sectional structures. A …

A polymeric gel is a cross-linked polymer network swollen with a solvent. Also, as is well
known many polymeric materials exhibit viscoelastic behavior in their mechanical response …

ABSTRACT A system undergoing sol–gel transition passes through a unique point, known
as the critical gel state, where it forms the weakest space spanning percolated network. We …