3 papers
cond-mat.soft2020
Soft matter science and the COVID-19 pandemic
Wilson C K Poon, Aidan T Brown, Susana O. L. Direito +9
Much of the science underpinning the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic lies in the soft matter domain. Coronaviruses are composite particles with a core of nucleic acids com…
cond-mat.soft2019
Conching chocolate: A prototypical transition from frictionally jammed solid to flowable suspension with maximal solid content
Elena Blanco, Daniel J. M. Hodgson, Michiel Hermes +6
The mixing of a powder of 10-50μm primary particles into a liquid to form a dispersion with the highest possible solid content is a common industrial operation. Building on recent…
cond-mat.soft2018
A constraint-based approach to granular dispersion rheology
B. M. Guy, J. A. Richards, D. J. M. Hodgson +2
We present a phenomenological model for granular suspension rheology in which particle interactions enter as constraints to relative particle motion. By considering constraints tha…