Structural color from cellulose nanocrystals or chitin nanocrystals: self-assembly, optics, and applications

B Frka-Petesic, TG Parton, C Honorato-Rios… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

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 …

The physics of the colloidal glass transition

GL Hunter, ER Weeks - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Concepts and conflicts in nanoparticles reinforcement to polymers beyond hydrodynamics

Y Song, Q Zheng - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
With substantial progresses in reinforcement mechanism of nanoparticle filled polymers
(NPFPs) beyond the hydrodynamic limit, now is the time to reconsider this topic …

Jamming and overpacking fuzzy microgels: Deformation, interpenetration, and compression

GM Conley, P Aebischer, S Nöjd, P Schurtenberger… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Tuning the solubility of fuzzy polymer microgels by external triggers, such as temperature or
pH, provides a unique mechanism for controlling the porosity and size of colloidal particles …

Molecular dynamics simulations of glassy polymers

JL Barrat, J Baschnagel, A Lyulin - Soft Matter, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
We review recent results from computer simulation studies of polymer glasses, from the
chain dynamics around the glass transition temperature Tg to the mechanical behaviour …

Life and death of colloidal bonds control the rate-dependent rheology of gels

M Nabizadeh, S Jamali - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Colloidal gels exhibit rich rheological responses under flowing conditions. A clear
understanding of the coupling between the kinetics of the formation/rupture of colloidal …

Slow-down in diffusion in crowded protein solutions correlates with transient cluster formation

G Nawrocki, P Wang, I Yu, Y Sugita… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
For a long time, the effect of a crowded cellular environment on protein dynamics has been
largely ignored. Recent experiments indicate that proteins diffuse more slowly in a living cell …

Tuning colloidal gels by shear

N Koumakis, E Moghimi, R Besseling, WCK Poon… - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Using a powerful combination of experiments and simulations we demonstrate how the
microstructure and its time evolution are linked with mechanical properties in a frustrated …

Unjamming and emergent nonreciprocity in active ploughing through a compressible viscoelastic fluid

JP Banerjee, R Mandal, DS Banerjee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid,
forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical phase …