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 gels formed by arrested phase separation are found widely in agriculture, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing; yet, the emergence of elasticity and the nature …
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 …
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 …
Globular folded proteins are versatile nanoscale building blocks to create biomaterials with mechanical robustness and inherent biological functionality due to their specific and well …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have been extensively pursued as functional electrodes in electrochemical energy storage devices. Numerous efforts have been devoted …