Effect of Interfacial Rheology on Drop Coalescence in Water-Oil Emulsion

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01382C, PaperTalita C. Botti, Anthony Hutin, Erick Quintella, Marcio CarvalhoOver the last years several studies have been conducted to understand emulsions formation and its behavior. In some applications, the aim is the phase separation of the emulsions through the...The content of this RSS Feed...

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Dynamics of active particles with space-dependent swim velocity

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01648B, PaperLorenzo Caprini, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, René Wittmann, Hartmut LöwenWe study the dynamical properties of an active particle subject to a swimming speed explicitly depending on the particle position. The oscillating spatial profile of the swim velocity considered in...The content...

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Electric Field Induced Macroscopic Cellular Phase of Nanoparticles

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01650D, PaperAbigail Rendos, Wenhan Cao, Margaret Chern, Marco Lauricella, Sauro Succi, Jörg G. Werner, Allison Dennis, Keith A BrownA suspension of nanoparticles with very low volume fraction is found to assemble into a macroscopic cellular phase that is comprised of particle-rich walls and particle-free...

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The effect of grain shape and material on the nonlocal rheology of dense granular flows

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01237A, PaperFarnaz Fazelpour, Zhu Tang, Karen E DanielsNonlocal rheologies allow for the modeling of granular flows from the creeping to intermediate flow regimes, using a small number of parameters. In this paper, we report on experiments testing...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society...

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Membrane mixing and dynamics in hybrid POPC/poly(1,2-butadiene-block-ethylene oxide) (PBd-b-PEO) lipid/block co-polymer giant vesicles

Soft Matter, 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01591E, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Rashmi Seneviratne, Rosa Catania, Michael Rappolt, Lars J. C. Jeuken, Paul A. BealesHomogeneous hybrid vesicles where lipid diffusion decreases with increasing polymer content but polymer diffusion...

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Anisotropic immerse precipitation process of the preparation of polymer membranes

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01613J, PaperXuwen Qiu, Sheng Mao, Jun Yin, Yantao YangWe study the immerse precipitation process in a ternary polymer/solvent/non-solvent system by numerically solving the two-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard phase field equation. Especially, we introduce an anisotropic mobility, namely the mobility...

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Transpiration-powered desalination water bottle

Soft Matter, 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01470F, PaperGracie A. Cornish, Ndidi L. Eyegheleme, Laurel S. Hudson, Kathleen J. Troy, Maia M. Vollen, Jonathan B. BoreykoInspired by mangrove trees, we present a theoretical design and analysis of a portable desalinating water bottle powered by transpiration.To cite this article before page numbers...

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Clog mitigation in a microfluidic array via pulsatile flows

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00013J, PaperBrian M Dincau, Connor Tang, Emilie Dressaire, Alban SauretClogging is a common obstacle encountered during the transport of suspensions and represents a significant energy and material cost across applications, including water purification, irrigation, biopharmaceutical processing,...

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Towards an Integrative Understanding of Cancer Mechanobiology: Calcium, YAP, and microRNA under Biophysical Forces

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01618K, Review Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Chenyu Liang, Miao Huang, Tianqi Li, Lu Li, Hayley Sussman, Yao Dai, Dietmar Siemann, Mingyi Xie, Xin TangAn increasing number of studies have demonstrated the significant...

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Actuation performance of a liquid crystalline elastomer composite reinforced by eiderdown fibers

Soft Matter, 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D1SM01356D, PaperNan Zhao, Xiuxiu Wang, Liru Yao, Huixuan Yan, Ban Qin, Chensha Li, Jianqi ZhangAn eiderdown fiber-reinforced liquid crystal elastomer composite developed here demonstrated greatly enhanced actuation mechanical properties and anti-fatigue properties, thus revealing potential in industrial...

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