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 …

It is widely appreciated that surface tension can dominate the behavior of liquids at small
scales. Solids also have surface stresses of a similar magnitude, but they are usually …

Morphological instabilities and surface wrinkling of soft materials such as gels and biological
tissues are of growing interest to a number of academic disciplines including soft …

Although negligible at large scales, capillary forces may become dominant for submillimetric
objects. Surface tension is usually associated with the spherical shape of small droplets and …

Droplets deform soft substrates near their contact lines. Using confocal microscopy, we
measure the deformation of silicone gel substrates due to glycerol and fluorinated-oil …

Abstract The Johnson–Kendall–Roberts theory is the basis of modern contact mechanics. It
describes how two deformable objects adhere together, driven by adhesion energy and …

The atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been widely used to measure the mechanical
properties of biological cells through indentations. In most of existing studies, the cell is …

Soft particles can be better emulsifiers than hard particles because they stretch at fluid
interfaces. This deformation can increase adsorption energies by orders of magnitude …

The creasing instability of elastomer films under compression is studied by a combination of
experiment and numerical simulation. Experimentally, we attach a stress-free film on a much …

Eshelby's theory of inclusions has wide-reaching implications across the mechanics of
materials and structures including the theories of composites, fracture, and plasticity …