Biomaterials with the ability to self-heal and recover their structural integrity offer many
advantages for applications in biomedicine. The past decade has witnessed the rapid …

Advances in hydrogel technology have unlocked unique and valuable capabilities that are
being applied to a diverse set of translational applications. Hydrogels perform functions …

Just as in clay moulding or glass blowing, physically sculpting biological structures requires
the constituent material to locally flow like a fluid while maintaining overall mechanical …

Tissue and organ development during embryogenesis relies on the collective and
coordinated action of many cells. Recent studies have revealed that tissue material …

The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

This paper reviews current knowledge about the rheology and applications of highly
concentrated molten polymers, focusing on hard particles with sizes ranging from several …

We review thixotropy, its attributes, and accompanying rheological phenomena, such as
yielding, hysteresis in shear-rate ramps, the influence of rest time and viscosity bifurcation …

The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

We combine an analytically solvable mean-field elasto-plastic model with molecular
dynamics simulations of a generic glass former to demonstrate that, depending on their …