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 …

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 …

Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide
variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance. Examples include …

When a system jams, it undergoes a transition from a flowing to a rigid state. Despite this
important change in the dynamics, the internal structure of the system remains disordered in …

We have studied how two-and three-dimensional systems made up of particles interacting
with finite range, repulsive potentials jam (ie, develop a yield stress in a disordered state) at …

Amorphous materials as diverse as foams, emulsions, colloidal suspensions and granular
media can jam into a rigid, disordered state where they withstand finite shear stresses …

We attribute similarities in the rheology of many soft materials (foams, emulsions, slurries,
etc.) to the shared features of structural disorder and metastability. A generic model for the …

This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the physics of amorphous solids and related
disordered condensed matter systems. Important concepts from statistical mechanics such …

One of the pioneering applications of foam is in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). A major
stumbling-block to the success of foam application in EOR is the adverse influence of oil on …

Much of our understanding of vibrational excitations and elasticity is based upon analysis of
frames consisting of sites connected by bonds occupied by central-force springs, the stability …