Yield stress fluids are encountered in a wide range of applications: toothpastes, cements,
mortars, foams, muds, mayonnaise, etc. The fundamental character of these fluids is that …

Underwater adhesion has been the focus of many recent developments motivated by
potential biomedical applications. Although most literature on underwater adhesives has …

Polymer materials have been widely used in industrial, agricultural, engineering, medical,
electronic, and biological fields because of their excellent and diverse properties (eg …

We present a paradigm for the design of yield-stress fluids, using six archetypal materials for
demonstration. By applying concepts of engineering design, we outline a materials design …

The free surface of a thin soft polymer film is often found to become unstable and self-
organizes into various meso-scale structures. In this article we classify the instability of a thin …

The word tribology originates from the Greek word tribos, which means “friction, rub,
grind,”“to wear away,” or “science of friction.” Tribology is the study of science and …

Polymer gels are found in many applications ranging from foods (Ross-Murphy, 1995;
Tunick, 2010) and drug delivery (Andrews & Jones, 2006) to adhesives (Creton, 2003) and …

Abstract 3D concrete printing is of great potential to replace shotcrete for hard rock tunnel
linings with the advantages of high surface quality and the avoidance of rebound. However …

In this article, a connection is made between the behavior of thin layers of Newtonian liquids
under tensile loading conditions and the behavior of highly deformable elastic or …

The rheological and adhesive properties of bis‐urea functionalized low‐molecular‐weight
polyisobutylenes (PIBUT) are investigated. The polymers, which can interact through …