Soft matter roadmap

JL Barrat, E Del Gado, SU Egelhaaf… - Journal of Physics …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

Glass transition of soft colloids

AM Philippe, D Truzzolillo, J Galvan-Myoshi… - Physical Review E, 2018‏ - APS
We explore the glassy dynamics of soft colloids using microgels and charged particles
interacting by steric and screened Coulomb interactions, respectively. In the supercooled …

Perspective: Differential dynamic microscopy extracts multi-scale activity in complex fluids and biological systems

R Cerbino, P Cicuta - The Journal of chemical physics, 2017‏ - pubs.aip.org
Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) is a technique that exploits optical microscopy to
obtain local, multi-scale quantitative information about dynamic samples, in most cases …

[HTML][HTML] DNA topology dictates emergent bulk elasticity and hindered macromolecular diffusion in DNA-dextran composites

P Khanal, KR Peddireddy, J Marfai, R McGorty… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - pubs.aip.org
Polymer architecture plays critical roles in both bulk rheological properties and microscale
macromolecular dynamics in entangled polymer solutions and composites. Ring polymers …

Modeling and correction of image drift in dynamic shadowgraphy experiments

S Castellini, M Brizioli, C Giraudet, M Carpineti… - The European Physical …, 2024‏ - Springer
The study of phoretic transport phenomena under non-stationary conditions presents
several challenges, mostly related to the stability of the experimental apparatus. This is …

A double rigidity transition rules the fate of drying colloidal drops

M Milani, T Phou, C Ligoure, L Cipelletti, L Ramos - Soft Matter, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The evaporation of drops of colloidal suspensions plays an important role in numerous
contexts, such as the production of powdered dairies, the synthesis of functional …

Space-resolved dynamic light scattering within a millimeter-sized drop: From Brownian diffusion to the swelling of hydrogel beads

M Milani, T Phou, G Prevot, L Ramos, L Cipelletti - Physical Review E, 2024‏ - APS
We present a dynamic light scattering setup to probe, with time and space resolution, the
microscopic dynamics of soft matter systems confined within millimeter-sized spherical …

A stress-controlled shear cell for small-angle light scattering and microscopy

S Aime, L Ramos, JM Fromental, G Prevot… - Review of Scientific …, 2016‏ - pubs.aip.org
We develop and test a stress-controlled, parallel plates shear cell that can be coupled to an
optical microscope or a small angle light scattering setup, for simultaneous investigation of …

Probing shear-induced rearrangements in Fourier space. II. Differential dynamic microscopy

S Aime, L Cipelletti - Soft Matter, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We discuss in two companion papers how Fourier-space measurements may be coupled to
rheological tests in order to elucidate the relationship between mechanical properties and …

An advanced light scattering apparatus for investigating soft matter onboard the International Space Station

A Martinelli, S Buzzaccaro, Q Galand, J Behra… - npj …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Colloidal solids (COLIS) is a state-of-the-art light scattering setup developed for experiments
onboard the International Space Station (ISS). COLIS allows for probing the structure and …