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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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cond-mat.soft2026★ 18 cited

Investigating the Nature of Discontinuous Shear Thickening: Beyond a Mean-Field Description

Jetin E. Thomas, Abhay Goyal, Deshpreet Singh Bedi +3

Dense suspensions can undergo a dramatic increase in viscosity at a critical value of the shear stress. This phenomenon, termed discontinuous shear thickening (DST), has been attri…

cond-mat.soft2026

Preserving elastic anisotropy with tessellations of granular packings

Annie Z. Xia, Dong Wang, Catherine La Riviere +3

Multiscale periodic metamaterials have been designed for numerous applications, such as impact absorption, acoustic cloaking, photonic band gaps, and mechanical logic gates. This p…

cond-mat.soft2025

Energy-Conserving Contact Dynamics of Nonspherical Rigid-Body Particles

Haoyuan Shi, Christopher J. Mundy, Gregory K. Schenter +1

Understanding the contact dynamics of nonspherical particles beyond the microscale is crucial for accurately modeling colloidal and granular systems, where shape anisotropy dictate…

cond-mat.soft2025

Shear jamming and nonlinear rheology of chocolate suspensions

Michel Orsi, Veeraj Shah, Mahesh Padmanabhan +2

We experimentally investigate the rheology of dark chocolate pastes in both industrially relevant pre-refined form and simplified model systems. Steady and oscillatory shear experi…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 2 cited

Particle-scale origin of quadrupolar non-affine displacement fields in granular solids

Evan P. Willmarth, Weiwei Jin, Dong Wang +4

In this work, we identify the local structural defects that control the non-affine displacement fields in jammed disk packings subjected to athermal, quasistatic (AQS) simple shear…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 6 cited

Magnetic Interactions between Nanoscale Domains in Correlated Liquids

Mohammadhasan Dinpajooh, Giovanna Ricchiuti, Andrew J. Ritchhart +6

The formation of nanoscale domains (NDs) in correlated liquids and the emerging collective magnetic properties have been suggested as key mechanisms governing ion transport under e…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 2 cited

Predicting Magnetic Janus Particle Assembly with Differential Evolution Algorithm

Eric A. McPherson, Kenneth Kroenlein, Ilona Kretzschmar

Magnetic Janus particles allow access to complex, nonlinear assembled structures that may enable interesting new magnetorheological (MR) fluids with uniquely engineered field respo…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 4 cited

Evolution of Adaptive Force Chains in Reconfigurable Granular Metamaterials

Sven Witthaus, Atoosa Parsa, Dong Wang +7

Under an externally applied load, granular packings form force chains that depend on the contact network and moduli of the grains. In this work, we investigate packings of variable…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Tuning the Size and Stiffness of Inflatable Particles

Nidhi Pashine, Dong Wang, Robert Baines +4

We describe size-varying cylindrical particles made from silicone elastomers that can serve as building blocks for robotic granular materials. The particle size variation, which is…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 2 cited

Dynamics of a Bottom-Heavy Janus Particle Near a Wall Under Shear Flow

Zohreh Jalilvand, Daniele Notarmuzi, Ubaldo M. Córdova-Figueroa +2

After our attention was brought to recent work by Pelargonio and Zaconne regarding the deviation of the white noise function for systems at very large shear, we have included the w…

cond-mat.soft2025

The effect of stereochemical constraints on the structural properties of folded proteins

Jack A. Logan, Jacob Sumner, Alex T. Grigas +2

Proteins are composed of chains of amino acids that fold into complex three-dimensional structures. Several key features, such as the radius of gyration, fraction of core amino aci…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 3 cited

Protein folding as a jamming transition

Alex T. Grigas, Zhuoyi Liu, Jack A. Logan +2

Proteins fold to a specific functional conformation with a densely packed hydrophobic core that controls their stability. We develop a geometric, yet all-atom model for proteins th…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 8 cited

Rigid clusters in shear-thickening suspensions: a nonequilibrium critical transition

Aritra Santra, Michel Orsi, Bulbul Chakraborty +1

The onset and growth of rigid clusters in a two-dimensional (2D) suspension in shear flow are studied by numerical simulations. The suspension exhibits the lubricated-to-frictional…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 3 cited

The connection between polymer collapse and the onset of jamming

Alex T. Grigas, Aliza Fisher, Mark D. Shattuck +1

Previous studies have shown that the interiors of proteins are densely packed, reaching packing fractions that are as large as those found for static packings of individual amino-a…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 12 cited

Tessellated granular metamaterials with tunable elastic moduli

Nidhi Pashine, Dong Wang, Jerry Zhang +5

Most granular packings possess shear moduli () that increase with the applied external pressure, and bulk moduli () that increase or remain constant with pressure. This paper…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 7 cited

Designing the pressure-dependent shear modulus using tessellated granular metamaterials

Jerry Zhang, Dong Wang, Weiwei Jin +5

Jammed packings of granular materials display complex mechanical response. For example, the ensemble-averaged shear modulus increases as a power-law…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 12 cited

Local and global measures of the shear moduli of jammed disk packings

S. Zhang, W. Jin, D. Wang +4

Strain-controlled isotropic compression gives rise to jammed packings of repulsive, frictionless disks with either positive or negative global shear moduli. We carry out computatio…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 14 cited

Hopper flows of deformable particles

Y. Cheng, J. D. Treado, B. Lonial +4

Numerous experimental and computational studies show that continuous hopper flows of granular materials obey the Beverloo equation that relates the volume flow rate and the ori…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 3 cited

Universal mechanical response of metallic glasses during strain-rate-dependent uniaxial compression

Weiwei Jin, Amit Datye, Udo D. Schwarz +2

Experimental data on the compressive strength versus strain rate for metallic glasses undergoing uniaxial compression shows significant…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 9 cited

Hydrodynamic Interactions Between Charged and Uncharged Brownian Colloids at a Fluid-Fluid Interface

Archit Dani, Mohsen Yeganeh, Charles Maldarelli

Hypothesis: The collective dynamics and self-assembly of colloids floating at a fluid/fluid interface is a balance between deterministic lateral interaction forces, viscous resista…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 39 cited

The structural, vibrational, and mechanical properties of jammed packings of deformable particles in three dimensions

Dong Wang, John D. Treado, Arman Boromand +4

We investigate the structural, vibrational, and mechanical properties of jammed packings of deformable particles with shape degrees of freedom in three dimensions (3D). Each 3D def…

cond-mat.soft2021

-core analysis of shear-thickening suspensions

Omer Sedes, Bulbul Chakraborty, Hernan A. Makse +1

Shear thickening of suspensions is studied by discrete-particle simulation, accounting for hydrodynamic, repulsive, and contact forces. The contact forces, including friction, are…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 5 cited

Mechanical response of packings of non-spherical particles: A case study of 2D packings of circulo-lines

J. Zhang, K. VanderWerf, C. Li +3

We investigate the mechanical response of jammed packings of circulo-lines, interacting via purely repulsive, linear spring forces, as a function of pressure during athermal, q…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 26 cited

Bridging particle deformability and collective response in soft solids

John D. Treado, Dong Wang, Arman Boromand +3

Soft, amorphous solids such as tissues, foams, and emulsions are composed of deformable particles. However, the effect of single-particle deformability on the collective behavior o…