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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…
Dynamics of Spontaneous Wrapping of Microparticles by Floppy Lipid Membranes
Hendrik T. Spanke, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Daniel Tran +2
Lipid membranes form the barrier between the inside and outside of cells and many of their subcompartments. As such, they bind to a wide variety of nano- and micrometer sized objec…
Enhancing the Refractive Index of Polymers with a Plant-Based Pigment
Mohammad Yasir, Tianqi Sai, Alba Sicher +4
Polymeric materials are prized for their formability, low density, and functional versatility. However, the refractive indices of common polymers fall in a relatively narrow range…
Surface tension and the strain-dependent topography of soft solids
Nicolas Bain, Anand Jagota, Katrina Smith-Mannschott +3
When stretched in one direction, most solids shrink in the transverse directions. In soft silicone gels, however, we observe that small-scale topographical features grow upon stret…
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…
Structural Color from Solid-State Polymerization-Induced Phase Separation
Alba Sicher, Rabea Ganz, Andreas Menzel +8
Structural colors are produced by wavelength-dependent scattering of light from nanostructures. While living organisms often exploit phase separation to directly assemble structura…