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20172022
most citedVisco-elastic drag forces and crossover from no-slip to slip boundary conditions for flow near air-water interfaces

55 citations · 55 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Polymeric Solvents Control Swelling-Induced Surface Creasing

Zechao Jiang, Zhaoyu Ding, Shaohua Yang +7

Surface creasing in swelling polymer gels is commonly attributed to compressive strain or interlayer mismatch, yet its general control remains unclear. Here we show that solvent po…

cond-mat.soft2026

Hydrodynamic Switching Fronts Polarize Deformable Particle Trains

Linzheng Huang, Hengdi Zhang, Zaicheng Zhang +1

We show that propagating switching fronts mediate directional state transmission and polarity selection in a passive many-body suspension. In confined trains of slipper-shaped defo…

cond-mat.soft2026

Quantitative measurements of the lift force acting on a sphere sliding along a liquid-liquid interface

Hao Zhang, Zaicheng Zhang, Abdelhamid Maali

This work explores the lift force experienced by a particle moving in a viscous fluid near a liquid-liquid interface. The lift force is induced by the interaction between the visco…

cond-mat.soft2026

Nanoscale Electroviscous Lift Force

Hao Zhang, Zaicheng Zhang, Thomas Guérin +1

About forty years ago, it has been predicted that a charged particle, moving parallel to a charged wall in an electrolyte, should experience a lift force that, contrarily to electr…

cond-mat.soft2025

Contactless measurements of the elastic modulus of living cells using thermal fluctuations of atomic force microscope cantilever

Hao Zhang, Zaicheng Zhang, Etienne Harte +2

We present a contactless method for measuring the elastic modulus of living cells (human triple-negative breast cancer, MDA-MB-231) from the thermal fluctuations of an atomic force…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Contactless Rheology of Soft Gels over a Broad Frequency Range

Zaicheng Zhang, Muhammad Arshad, Vincent Bertin +4

We report contactless measurements of the viscoelastic rheological properties of soft gels. The experiments are performed using a colloidal-probe Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in a…