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Strain-stiffening elastomers fail from the edge
Nan Xue, Rong Long, Eric R. Dufresne +1
The accurate measurement of fracture resistance in elastomers is essential for predicting the mechanical limits of soft devices. Usually, this is achieved by performing tearing or…
Elastic Microphase Separation Produces Robust Bicontinuous Materials
Carla Fernández-Rico, Sanjay Schreiber, Hamza Oudich +8
Bicontinuous microstructures are essential to the function of diverse natural and synthetic systems. Their synthesis has been based on two approaches: arrested phase separation or…
Gradients in solid surface tension drive Marangoni-like motions in cell aggregates
Vikrant Yadav, Md. Sulaiman Yousafzai, Sorosh Amiri +3
The surface tension of living cells and tissues originates from the generation of nonequilibrium active stresses within the cell cytoskeleton. Here, using laser ablation, we genera…
Mechanical stability of particle-stabilized droplets under micropipette aspiration
Niveditha Samudrala, Jin Nam, Raphael Sarfati +2
We investigate the mechanical behavior of particle-stabilized droplets using micropipette aspiration. We observe that droplets stabilized with amphiphilic dumbbell-shaped particles…
Surface tension and the mechanics of liquid inclusions in compliant solids
Robert W. Style, John S. Wettlaufer, Eric R. Dufresne
Eshelby's theory of inclusions has wide-reaching implications across the mechanics of materials and structures including the theories of composites, fracture, and plasticity. Howev…
Stiffening solids with liquid inclusions
Robert W. Style, Rostislav Boltyanskiy, Benjamin Allen +4
From bone and wood to concrete and carbon fibre, composites are ubiquitous natural and engineering materials. Eshelby's inclusion theory describes how macroscopic stress fields cou…