3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Signatures of auxeticity in microgels at low and ultralow crosslinker concentration
Susana Marín-Aguilar, Leah Rank, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Auxetic behavior, characterized by a negative Poisson's ratio, is a counterintuitive mechanical response exhibited, among other systems, by certain polymer networks. Here, through…
cond-mat.soft2025
Unexpected Behavior of Ultra-Low-Crosslinked Microgels in Crowded Conditions
Susana Marín-Aguilar, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Ultra-low-crosslinked (ULC) microgels are among the softest colloidal particles nowadays routinely synthesized experimentally. Despite a growing literature of experimental results,…
cond-mat.soft2019
Tetrahedrality dictates dynamics in hard spheres
Susana Marín-Aguilar, Henricus H. Wensink, Giuseppe Foffi +1
Glasses are ubiquitous amorphous solids that remain one of the big mysteries in condensed matter. Despite the vast body of literature on glasses, a unifying approach to link the st…