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Soft ULC Microgels at the Interface Interact and Flow as Hertzian-Like Colloids
José Ruiz-Franco, Tom Höfken, Maximilian M. Schmidt +3
Soft pair potentials predict a reentrant liquid phase for high concentrations, a behavior not observed experimentally. Here, very soft microgels confined at an oil-water interface…
Inducing mechanical self-healing in glassy polymer melts
José Ruiz-Franco, Andrea Giuntoli
Glassy polymer melts such as the plastics used in pipes, structural materials, and medical devices are ubiquitous in daily life. They accumulate damage over time due to their use,…
Auxetic polymer networks: The role of crosslinking, density and disorder
Andrea Ninarello, José Ruiz-Franco, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Low-connectivity polymer networks were recently found to behave auxetically when subjected to small tensions, that is, their Poisson's ratio becomes negative. In addition, for…
Interfacial fluid rheology of soft particles
Maximilian M. Schmidt, José Ruiz-Franco, Steffen Bochenek +3
In situ interfacial rheology and numerical simulations are used to investigate microgel monolayers in a wide range of packing fractions, . The heterogeneous particle compre…
Structure and elasticity of model disordered, polydisperse and defect-free polymer networks
Valerio Sorichetti, Andrea Ninarello, José Ruiz-Franco +5
The elasticity of disordered and polydisperse polymer networks is a fundamental problem of soft matter physics that is still open. Here, we self-assemble polymer networks via simul…
Link between morphology, structure and interactions of composite microgels
Rodrigo Rivas-Barbosa, José Ruiz-Franco, Mayra A. Lara-Peña +5
We combine small angle scattering experiments and simulations to investigate the internal structure and interactions of composite Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Poly(ethylene glycol)…