Yield stress materials in soft condensed matter

D Bonn, MM Denn, L Berthier, T Divoux… - Reviews of Modern …, 2017 - APS
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 …

Real space analysis of colloidal gels: Triumphs, challenges and future directions

CP Royall, MA Faers, SL Fussell… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Colloidal gels constitute an important class of materials found in many contexts and with a
wide range of applications. Yet as matter far from equilibrium, gels exhibit a variety of time …

Dynamic scaling of colloidal gel formation at intermediate concentrations

Q Zhang, D Bahadur, EM Dufresne, P Grybos… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We have examined the formation and dissolution of gels composed of intermediate volume-
fraction nanoparticles with temperature-dependent short-range attractions using small-angle …

Tuning the rheological behavior of colloidal gels through competing interactions

J Ruiz-Franco, F Camerin, N Gnan, E Zaccarelli - Physical Review Materials, 2020 - APS
We study colloidal gels formed by competing electrostatic repulsion and short-range
attraction by means of extensive numerical simulations under external shear. We show that …

Thermodynamics, static properties and transport behaviour of fluids with competing interactions

R Perdomo-Pérez, J Martínez-Rivera… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Competing interaction fluids have become ideal model systems to study a large number of
phenomena, for example, the formation of intermediate range order structures, condensed …

Network growth and structural characteristics of globular protein hydrogels

BS Hanson, L Dougan - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Folded protein-based hydrogels are a novel class of biomaterials which combine the useful
viscoelastic properties of individual proteins together with the prospect of rational design …

Elasticity of colloidal gels: structural heterogeneity, floppy modes, and rigidity

DZ Rocklin, L Hsiao, M Szakasits, MJ Solomon, X Mao - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Rheological measurements of model colloidal gels reveal that large variations in the shear
moduli as colloidal volume-fraction changes are not reflected by simple structural …

Modeling the structure and thermodynamics of multicomponent and polydisperse hard-sphere dispersions with continuous potentials

J Martínez-Rivera, A Villada-Balbuena… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A model system of identical particles interacting via a hard-sphere potential is essential in
condensed matter physics; it helps to understand in and out of equilibrium phenomena in …

Reversible aggregation and colloidal cluster morphology: the importance of the extended law of corresponding states

NE Valadez-Pérez, Y Liu, R Castañeda-Priego - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Cluster morphology of spherical particles interacting with a short-range attraction has been
extensively studied due to its relevance to many applications, such as the large-scale …

Local order and cluster formation in model fluids with competing interactions: a simulation and theoretical study

JM Bomont, D Costa, JL Bretonnet - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In a preliminary study [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 15247], we have recently
documented an elusive mechanism underlying the cluster formation in model fluids with …