In spite of the growing body of evidence against it, the elasticity view of the phenomenon of
cavitation in elastomers continues to be utilized in numerous studies. In this context, the …

Cavitation is the sudden, unstable expansion of a void or bubble within a liquid or solid
subjected to a negative hydrostatic stress. Cavitation rheology is a field emerging from the …

Biofilms are aggregates of bacterial cells surrounded by an extracellular matrix. Much
progress has been made in studying biofilm growth on solid substrates; however, little is …

Cavitation bubbles form in soft biological systems when subjected to a negative pressure
above a critical threshold, and dynamically change their size and shape in a violent manner …

Nearly three decades ago, the field of mechanics was cautioned of the obscure nature of
cavitation processes in soft materials [A. Gent, Cavitation in rubber: a cautionary tale …

Elastomers saturated with gas at high pressure suffer from cavity nucleation, inflation, and
deflation upon rapid or explosive decompression. Although this process often results in …

Minimally invasive experimental methods that can measure local rate dependent
mechanical properties are essential in understanding the behaviour of soft and biological …

Characterization of soft materials is challenging due to their high compliance and the strain-
rate dependence of their mechanical properties. The inertial microcavitation-based high …

Abstract Changes in the elastic properties of brain tissue have been correlated with injury,
cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases. However, discrepancies in the reported elastic …

Rapid expansion of soft solids subjected to a negative hydrostatic stress can occur through
cavitation or fracture. Understanding how these two mechanisms relate to a material's …