Particle science and technology is a rapidly develo** interdisciplinary research area with
its core being the understanding of the relationships between micro-and macroscopic …

Understanding the characteristics of jammed particle packings provides basic insights into
the structure and bulk properties of crystals, glasses, and granular media and into selected …

Active materials are characterized by continuous injection of energy at the microscopic level
and typically cannot be adequately described by equilibrium thermodynamics. Here we …

One of the outstanding challenges in the field of porous materials is the design and
synthesis of chemical structures with exceptionally high surface areas. Such materials are of …

We have studied how two-and three-dimensional systems made up of particles interacting
with finite range, repulsive potentials jam (ie, develop a yield stress in a disordered state) at …

Packing problems, such as how densely objects can fill a volume, are among the most
ancient and persistent problems in mathematics and science. For equal spheres, it has only …

Ethanol and ethanol-water mixtures were converted directly into H2 with∼ 100% selectivity
and> 95% conversion by catalytic partial oxidation, with a residence time on rhodium-ceria …

Granular materials are ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they have been the subject of
intensive engineering research for centuries, in the last two decades granular matter has …

In 1989, Sir Sam Edwards made the visionary proposition to treat jammed granular materials
using a volume ensemble of equiprobable jammed states in analogy to thermal equilibrium …

Most studies on granular physics have focused on dry granular media, with no liquids
between the grains. However, in geology and many real world applications (eg food …