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cond-mat.soft2026

Coherent modeling of double-folded ring polymers and their underlying random tree structure

Pieter H. W. van der Hoek, Angelo Rosa, Elham Ghobadpour +1

Topologically constrained genome-like polymers often double-fold into tree-like configurations, which can be modelled on the level of folded (ring) polymers or on the level of the…

cond-mat.soft2026

Accelerating charging dynamics of electric double-layer capacitors

Megh Dutta, Ivan Palaia, Emmanuel Trizac +1

Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), consisting of an ionic fluid between two metallic electrodes, are electrochemical energy storage devices complementary to batteries, allow…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Configurational entropy of randomly double-folding ring polymers

Pieter H. W. van der Hoek, Angelo Rosa, Elham Ghobadpour +1

Topologically constrained genome-like polymers often double-fold into tree-like configurations. Here we calculate the exact number of tightly double-folded configurations available…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 4 cited

Glass transition in colloidal monolayers controlled by light-induced caging

Abolfazl Ahmadirahmat, Michele Caraglio, Vincent Krakoviack +1

We theoretically investigate the glass-transition problem for a quasi-two-dimensional colloidal dense suspension modulated by a one-dimensional periodic external potential as impos…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition for a liquid in a periodic potential

Abolfazl Ahmadirahmat, Michele Caraglio, Vincent Krakoviack +1

We derive a microscopic theory for the structural dynamics in the vicinity of the glass transition for a liquid exposed to a one-dimensional periodic potential. The periodic potent…

cond-mat.soft2025

Learning general pair interactions between self-propelled particles

Jérôme Hem, Alexis Poncet, Pierre Ronceray +2

Synthetic active matter systems, such as active colloids, often have complex interactions, which can be of hydrodynamic, chemical or electrostatic origin and cannot be computed fro…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 19 cited

Elucidating chirality transfer in liquid crystals of viruses

Eric Grelet, Maxime Tortora

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature across all length scales, with major implications spanning the fields of biology, chemistry and physics to materials science. How chirality propag…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 7 cited

Multiscale stress dynamics in sheared liquid foams revealed by tomo-rheoscopy

Florian Schott, Benjamin Dollet, Stéphane Santucci +5

Rheology aims at quantifying the response of materials to mechanical forcing. However, standard rheometers provide only global macroscopic quantities, such as viscoelastic moduli.…

cond-mat.soft2024

Shape of a membrane on a liquid interface with arbitrary curvatures

Zachariah S. Schrecengost, Seif Hejazine, Jordan V. Barrett +2

We study the deformation of a liquid interface with arbitrary principal curvatures by a flat circular sheet. Working first at small slopes, we determine the shape of the sheet anal…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 6 cited

Amoeba Monte Carlo algorithms for random trees with controlled branching activity: efficient trial move generation and universal dynamics

Pieter H. W. van der Hoek, Angelo Rosa, Ralf Everaers

The reptation Monte Carlo algorithm is a simple, physically motivated and efficient method for equilibrating semi-dilute solutions of linear polymers. Here we propose two simple ge…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 3 cited

A comprehensive study of nonlinear perturbations in the dynamics of planar crack fronts

Itamar Kolvin, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia

The interaction of crack fronts with asperities is central to the criteria of fracture in heterogeneous materials and for predicting fracture surface formation. It is known how dyn…

cond-mat.soft2024

Metastability of a periodic network of threads: what are the shapes of a knitted fabric ?

Jérôme Crassous, Samuel Poincloux, Audrey Steinberger

Knitted fabrics are metamaterials with remarkable mechanical properties, such as extreme deformability and multiple history-dependent rest shapes. This letter shows that those prop…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 11 cited

Attractive carbon black dispersions: structural and mechanical responses to shear

Julien Bauland, Louis-Vincent Bouthier, Arnaud Poulesquen +1

The rheological behavior of colloidal dispersions is of paramount importance in a wide range of applications, including construction materials, energy storage systems and food indu…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 63 cited

Self-Aligning Polar Active Matter

Paul Baconnier, Olivier Dauchot, Vincent Démery +4

Self-alignment describes the property of a polar active unit to align or anti-align its orientation towards its velocity. In contrast to mutual alignment, where the headings of mul…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 13 cited

Experimental evidence of seismic ruptures initiated by aseismic slip

Yohann Faure, Elsa Bayart

Seismic faults release the stress accumulated during tectonic movement through rapid ruptures or slow slip events. The slow slip events play a crucial role in the seismic cycle as…

cond-mat.soft2023

Effects of salinity on flows of dense colloidal suspensions

Marc Lagoin, Rémy Fulcrand, Agnès Piednoir +1

We experimentally study the effects of salt concentration on the flowing dynamics of dense suspensions of micrometer-sized silica particles in microfluidic drums. In pure water, th…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 6 cited

Rotational and translational drags of a Janus particle close to a wall and a lipid membrane

Vaibhav Sharma, Florent Fessler, Fabrice Thalmann +2

Hypothesis: Measuring rotational and translational Brownian motion of single spherical particles reveals dissipations due to the interaction between the particle and the environmen…

cond-mat.soft2023

Transonic and supershear crack propagation driven by geometric nonlinearities

Mohit Pundir, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, David S. Kammer

Linear elastic fracture mechanics theory predicts that the speed of crack growth is limited by the Rayleigh wave speed. Although many experimental observations and numerical simula…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 10 cited

Emergence of tip singularities in dissolution patterns

Martin Chaigne, Sabrina Carpy, Marion Massé +3

Chemical erosion, one of the two major erosion processes along with mechanical erosion, occurs when a soluble rock like salt, gypsum or limestone is dissolved in contact with a wat…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 9 cited

Shear-induced reinforcement in boehmite gels: a rheo-X-ray-scattering study

Iana Sudreau, Marion Servel, Eric Freyssingeas +9

Boehmite, an aluminum oxide hydroxide -AlO(OH), is broadly used in the form of particulate dispersions in industrial applications, e.g., for the fabrication of ceramics and cata…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 5 cited

Poisson-Nernst-Planck charging dynamics of an electric double layer capacitor: symmetric and asymmetric binary electrolytes

Ivan Palaia, Adelchi J. Asta, Megh Dutta +3

A parallel plate capacitor containing an electrolytic solution is the simplest model of a supercapacitor, or electric double layer capacitor. Using both analytical and numerical te…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 1 cited

Ordered ground state configurations of the asymmetric Wigner bilayer system -- revisited: an unsupervised clustering algorithm analysis

Benedikt Hartl, Marek Mihalkovič, Ladislav Šamaj +3

We have re-analysed the rich plethora of ground state configurations of the asymmetric Wigner bilayer system that we had recently published in a related diagram of states [M. Antla…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 7 cited

Orientational wetting and topological transitions in confined solutions of semi-flexible polymers

Maxime M. C. Tortora, Daniel Jost

Despite their considerable practical and biological applications, the link between molecular properties, assembly conditions and self-organized structure in confined polymer soluti…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 22 cited

Dual origin of viscoelasticity in polymer-carbon black hydrogels: a rheometry and electrical spectroscopy study

Gauthier Legrand, Sébastien Manneville, Gareth H. McKinley +1

Nanocomposites formed by mixing nanoparticles and polymers offer a limitless creative space for the design of functional advanced materials with a broad range of applications in ma…