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20172026
most citedUsing Acoustic Perturbations to Dynamically Tune Shear Thickening in Colloidal Suspensions

35 citations · 99 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

physics.bio-ph2026

Biogenic bubbles enable microbial escape from physical confinement

Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Thomas Appleford, Hao Nghi Luu +3

Immotile microbes inhabit nearly every environment on Earth, from soils and sediments to food matrices -- yet how they disperse through these physically confining environments is p…

cond-mat.soft2025

Universal scaling of shear thickening suspensions under acoustic perturbation

Anna R. Barth, Navneet Singh, Stephen J. Thornton +7

Tuning shear thickening behavior is a longstanding problem in the field of dense suspensions. Acoustic perturbations offer a convenient way to control shear thickening in real time…

cond-mat.soft2025

Getting out of a tight spot: Cooperative unclogging of hydrogel particles in disordered porous media

Sanjana Kamath, Laurent Talon, Meera Ramaswamy +2

We use event-driven pore network modeling to study the transport of hydrogel particles through disordered porous media -- a process that underlies diverse applications. By simulati…

cond-mat.soft2024

Jamming memory into acoustically trained dense suspensions under shear

Edward Y. X. Ong, Anna R. Barth, Navneet Singh +5

Systems driven far from equilibrium often retain structural memories of their processing history. This memory has, in some cases, been shown to dramatically alter the material resp…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 3 cited

Viscosity Metamaterials

Prateek Sehgal, Meera Ramaswamy, Edward Y. X. Ong +3

Metamaterials are composite structures whose properties arise from a mesoscale organization of their constituents. Provided this organization occurs on scales smaller than the char…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 1 cited

Incorporating tunability into a universal scaling framework for shear thickening

Meera Ramaswamy, Itay Griniasty, James P Sethna +2

Recently, we proposed a universal scaling framework that shows shear thickening in dense suspensions is governed by the crossover between two critical points: one associated with f…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 4 cited

Universal scaling of shear thickening transitions

Meera Ramaswamy, Itay Griniasty, Danilo B. Liarte +6

Nearly all dense suspensions undergo dramatic and abrupt thickening transitions in their flow behaviour when sheared at high stresses. Such transitions occur when the dominant inte…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 26 cited

Embedding Orthogonal Memories in a Colloidal Gel through Oscillatory Shear

Eric M Schwen, Meera Ramaswamy, Chieh-Min Cheng +2

It has recently been shown that in a broad class of disordered systems oscillatory shear training can embed memories of specific shear protocols in relevant physical parameters suc…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 35 cited

Using Acoustic Perturbations to Dynamically Tune Shear Thickening in Colloidal Suspensions

Prateek Sehgal, Meera Ramaswamy, Itai Cohen +1

Colloidal suspensions in industrial processes often exhibit shear thickening that is difficult to control actively. Here, we use piezoelectric transducers to apply acoustic perturb…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 30 cited

How Confinement-Induced Structures Alter the Contribution of Hydrodynamic and Short-Ranged Repulsion Forces to the Viscosity of Colloidal Suspensions

Meera Ramaswamy, Neil Y. C. Lin, Brian D. Leahy +4

Understanding the correlation between structure and rheology in colloidal suspensions is important as these suspensions are crucial in industrial applications. Moreover, colloids e…