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cond-mat.soft2017★ 40 cited
Strand plasticity governs fatigue in colloidal gels
Jan Maarten van Doorn, Joanne E. Verweij, Joris Sprakel +1
Repeated loading of a solid leads to microstructural damage that ultimately results in catastrophic material failure. While posing a major threat to the stability of virtually all…
cond-mat.soft2017★ 41 cited
Direct Observation of Entropic Stabilization of bcc Crystals Near Melting
Joris Sprakel, Alessio Zaccone, Frans Spaepen +2
Crystals with low latent heat are predicted to melt from an entropically stabilized body-centered cubic symmetry. At this weakly first-order transition, strongly correlated fluctua…