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Unravelling the multiscale surface mechanics of soft solids
Nicolas Bain, Lawrence A. Wilen, Dominic Gerber +7
Soft solids and their surface deformations control the response of many natural and artificial systems. Yet, their underlying properties are vigorously debated, particularly for po…
Characterizing hydrogel behavior under compression with gel-freezing osmometry
Yanxia Feng, Dominic Gerber, Stefanie Heyden +4
Hydrogels are particularly versatile materials that are widely found in both Nature and industry. One key reason for this versatility is their high water content, which lets them d…
Dehydration drives damage in the freezing of brittle hydrogels
Shaohua Yang, Dominic Gerber, Yanxia Feng +6
It is widely known that freezing breaks soft, wet materials. However, the mechanism underlying this damage is still not clear. To understand this process, we freeze model, brittle…
Polycrystallinity enhances stress build-up around ice
Dominic Gerber, Lawrence A. Wilen, Eric R. Dufresne +1
Damage caused by freezing wet, porous materials is a widespread problem, but is hard to predict or control. Here, we show that polycrystallinity makes a great difference to the str…
The generalized Clapeyron equation and its application to confined ice growth
Robert W. Style, Dominic Gerber, Alan W. Rempel +1
Most theoretical descriptions of stresses induced by freezing are rooted in the (generalized) Clapeyron equation, which predicts the pressure that a solid can exert as it cools bel…
Stress accumulation around ice in a temperature gradient
Dominic Gerber, Lawrence A. Wilen, Florian Poydenot +2
When materials freeze, they often undergo damage due to ice growth. Although this damage is commonly ascribed to the volumetric expansion of water upon freezing, it is usually driv…
Measuring surface tensions of soft solids with huge contact-angle hysteresis
Jin Young Kim, Stefanie Heyden, Dominic Gerber +3
The equilibrium contact angle of a droplet resting on a solid substrate can reveal essential properties of the solid's surface. However, when the motion of a droplet on a surface s…
Self-Templating Assembly of Soft Microparticles into Complex Tessellations
Fabio Grillo, Miguel-Angel Fernandez-Rodriguez, Maria-Nefeli Antonopoulou +2
Self-assembled monolayers of microparticles encoding Archimedean and non-regular tessellations promise unprecedented structure-property relationships for a wide spectrum of applica…