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most citedExperimental study of random close packed colloidal particles

90 citations · 233 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Bond-number-controlled durability of cohesive granular materials under repeated vibration

Hikari Yokota, Rei Kurita

Cohesive granular materials derive their mechanical stability not only from the strength of individual interparticle bonds but also from the number of bonds forming the load-bearin…

cond-mat.soft2026

Fluid-structure coupling governs a dynamic transition in foam scraping

Rei Kurita, Masaya Endo

Foam scraping exhibits a dynamic transition between a slip state, in which the foam moves beneath a plate, and a scraping state, in which the foam is expelled from the confined reg…

cond-mat.soft2026

Geometric control of powder jet dynamics and energy dissipation

Kazuya U. Kobayash, Komei Jinbo, Riku Kodama +2

Applying an impulsive force to a powder layer shaped with a concave surface generates a sharp powder jet. This phenomenon has been proposed as a method for evaluating the flowabili…

cond-mat.soft2026

Hidden Structural Control of Solvent Transport under Soft Jamming

Kento Tamaki, Naoya Yanagisawa, Rei Kurita

Transport in soft jammed materials is often described as fluid motion through a fixed structure, leading naturally to capillary based descriptions. This picture appears particularl…

cond-mat.soft2025

Critical-like phenomenon in scraping of jamming systems

Masaya Endo, Rei Kurita

In jamming systems like colloids, emulsions, foams, and biological tissues, significant deformation is essential for processes such as material scraping or wound self-healing. To a…

cond-mat.soft2023

Spreading of foam on a substrate

Masaya Endo, Marie Tani, Rei Kurita

Foam is an industrially important form of matter, commonly deployed to clean objects and even our own skin, thanks to its ability to absorb oil and particles into its interior. To…

cond-mat.soft2023

Gel-like granular materials with high durability and high deformability

Honoka Fujio, Hikari Yokota, Marie Tani +1

Building materials such as concretes and mortar are formed by solidifying granular slabs. Such materials are often fractured by giant forces such as during earthquakes, leading to…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 1 cited

Selective 3-dimensional patterning during phase separation of a continuously laminated layer

Rikuya Ishikawa, Marie Tani, Rei Kurita

Control over the physical properties of materials is ubiquitously required in many fields. One means by which this can be achieved is controlling the internal structure of multi-co…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Glassy atomic vibrations and blurry electronic structures created by local structural disorders in high-entropy metal telluride superconductors

Yoshikazu Mizuguchi, Hidetomo Usui, Rei Kurita +10

The motivation of this work is our recent observation of the robustness of superconductivity in a High-entropy (HE) superconductor Ag0.2In0.2Sn0.2Pb0.2Bi0.2Te (CsCl-type) to extern…

cond-mat.soft2011★ 26 cited

Measuring every particle's size from three-dimensional imaging experiments

Rei Kurita, Eric R. Weeks

Often experimentalists study colloidal suspensions that are nominally monodisperse. In reality these samples have a polydispersity of 4-10%. At the level of an individual particle,…

cond-mat.soft2011★ 84 cited

Incompressibility of polydisperse random close packed colloidal particles

Rei Kurita, Eric R. Weeks

We use confocal microscopy to study a random close packed sample of colloidal particles. We introduce an algorithm to estimate the size of each particle. Taking into account their…

cond-mat.soft2010★ 90 cited

Experimental study of random close packed colloidal particles

Rei Kurita, Eric R Weeks

A collection of spherical particles can be packed tightly together into an amorphous packing known as "random close packing" (RCP). This structure is of interest as a model for the…

cond-mat.soft2009★ 32 cited

The glass transition of two-dimensional binary soft disk mixtures with large size ratios

Rei Kurita, Eric R. Weeks

We simulate binary soft disk systems in two dimensions, and investigate how the dynamics slow as the area fraction is increased toward the glass transition. The "fragility" quantif…