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Plato's cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation
Gábor Domokos, Douglas J. Jerolmack, Ferenc Kun +1
Plato envisioned Earth's building blocks as cubes, a shape rarely found in nature. The solar system is littered, however, with distorted polyhedra -- shards of rock and ice produce…
Formation of stable aggregates by fluid-assembled solid bridges
Ali Seiphoori, Xiao-guang Ma, Paulo E. Arratia +1
When a colloidal suspension is dried, capillary pressure may overwhelm repulsive electrostatic forces, assembling aggregates that are out of thermal equilibrium. This poorly unders…
Viewing Earth's surface as a soft matter landscape
Douglas J. Jerolmack, Karen E. Daniels
The Earth's surface is composed of a staggering diversity of particulate-fluid mixtures: dry to wet, dilute to dense, colloidal to granular, and attractive to repulsive particles.…