Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) self-assemble and can be flow-assembled to liquid
crystalline orders in a water suspension. The orders range from nano-to macroscale with the …

Rheological characterization of physically crosslinked peptide‐and protein‐based hydrogels
is widely reported in the literature. In this review, we focus on solid injectable hydrogels …

Mechanical characterization of soft materials at high strain-rates is challenging due to their
high compliance, slow wave speeds, and non-linear viscoelasticity. Yet, knowledge of their …

Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

Mechanical properties are of central importance to materials sciences, in particular if they
depend on external stimuli. Here we investigate the rheological response of amorphous …

We report direct measurements of spatially resolved stress at the boundary of a shear-
thickening cornstarch suspension revealing persistent regions of high local stress …

Dense particulate suspensions exhibit a dramatic increase in average viscosity above a
critical, material-dependent shear stress. This thickening changes from continuous to …

We report experimental and computational observations of dynamic contact networks for
colloidal suspensions undergoing shear thickening. The dense suspensions are comprised …

The design and performance of an instrument capable of simultaneous Raman
spectroscopy, rheology, and optical microscopy are described. The instrument couples a …

Hypothesis The viscosity of dense suspensions surges when the applied stress surpasses a
material-specific critical threshold. There is growing evidence that the thickening transition …