scholarly journals Dynamics & Spectroscopy with Neutrons—Recent Developments & Emerging Opportunities

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1440
Author(s):  
Kacper Drużbicki ◽  
Mattia Gaboardi ◽  
Felix Fernandez-Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Behavior ◽  
Disordered Materials ◽  
Spectroscopic Techniques ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Soft Solids ◽  
Sustainable Technologies ◽  
Energy Transfers ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Scientific Questions ◽  
Nuclear Quantum Effects

This work provides an up-to-date overview of recent developments in neutron spectroscopic techniques and associated computational tools to interrogate the structural properties and dynamical behavior of complex and disordered materials, with a focus on those of a soft and polymeric nature. These have and continue to pave the way for new scientific opportunities simply thought unthinkable not so long ago, and have particularly benefited from advances in high-resolution, broadband techniques spanning energy transfers from the meV to the eV. Topical areas include the identification and robust assignment of low-energy modes underpinning functionality in soft solids and supramolecular frameworks, or the quantification in the laboratory of hitherto unexplored nuclear quantum effects dictating thermodynamic properties. In addition to novel classes of materials, we also discuss recent discoveries around water and its phase diagram, which continue to surprise us. All throughout, emphasis is placed on linking these ongoing and exciting experimental and computational developments to specific scientific questions in the context of the discovery of new materials for sustainable technologies.

scholarly journals The Effect of Void Arrangement on the Pattern Transformation of Porous Soft Solids under Biaxial Loading

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1205
Author(s):  
Hai Qiu ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Tianfu Guo ◽  
Shan Tang ◽  
Zhaoqian Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biaxial Loading ◽  
Tensile Deformation ◽  
Biaxial Stress ◽  
Porous Solids ◽  
Biaxial Compression ◽  
Structural Topology ◽  
Soft Solids ◽  
Tension And Compression ◽  
Inclined Angle ◽  
Pattern Transformation

Structural topology and loading condition have important influences on the mechanical behaviors of porous soft solids. The porous solids are usually set to be under uniaxial tension or compression. Only a few studies have considered the biaxial loads, especially the combined loads of tension and compression. In this study, porous soft solids with oblique and square lattices of circular voids under biaxial loadings were studied through integrated experiments and numerical simulations. For the soft solids with oblique lattices of circular voids, we found a new pattern transformation under biaxial compression, which has alternating elliptic voids with an inclined angle. This kind of pattern transformation is rarely reported under uniaxial compression. Introducing tensile deformation in one direction can hamper this kind of pattern transformation under biaxial loading. For the soft solids with square lattices of voids, the number of voids cannot change their deformation behaviors qualitatively, but quantitatively. In general, our present results demonstrate that void morphology and biaxial loading can be harnessed to tune the pattern transformations of porous soft solids under large deformation. This discovery offers a new avenue for designing the void morphology of soft solids for controlling their deformation patterns under a specific biaxial stress-state.

On the character of acoustic waves at the interface between hard and soft solids and liquids

2001 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 1299-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christ Glorieux ◽  
Kris Van de Rostyne ◽  
Keith Nelson ◽  
Weimin Gao ◽  
Walter Lauriks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Soft Solids

Flow of soft solids squeezed between planar and spherical surfaces

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 563-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Henry Meeten
Keyword(s):  
Soft Solids ◽  
Spherical Surfaces

A methodology for modeling surface effects on stiff and soft solids

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 687-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin He ◽  
Harold S. Park
Keyword(s):  
Surface Effects ◽  
Soft Solids

scholarly journals Contact lines on stretched soft solids: modelling anisotropic surface stresses

2021 ◽  
Vol 477 (2245) ◽  
pp. 20200673
Author(s):  
Stefanie Heyden ◽  
Nicolas Bain ◽  
Qin Xu ◽  
Robert W. Style ◽  
Eric R. Dufresne
Keyword(s):  
Soft Matter ◽  
Liquid Droplet ◽  
Substrate Surface ◽  
Contact Lines ◽  
Soft Substrate ◽  
Soft Solids ◽  
Anisotropic Surface ◽  
Surface Profiles ◽  
Free Parameters ◽  
Lamé Coefficients

We present fully analytical solutions for the deformation of a stretched soft substrate due to the static wetting of a large liquid droplet, and compare our solutions to recently published experiments (Xu et al. 2018 Soft Matter 14, 916–920 (doi:10.1039/C7SM02431B)). Following a Green’s function approach, we extend the surface-stress regularized Flamant–Cerruti problem to account for uniaxial pre-strains of the substrate. Surface profiles, including the heights and opening angles of wetting ridges, are provided for linearized and finite kinematics. We fit experimental wetting ridge shapes as a function of applied strain using two free parameters, the surface Lamé coefficients. In comparison with experiments, we find that observed opening angles are more accurately captured using finite kinematics, especially with increasing levels of applied pre-strain. These fits qualitatively agree with the results of Xu et al ., but revise values of the surface elastic constants.

scholarly journals Electric field induced gelation in aqueous nanoclay suspensions

Soft Matter ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (34) ◽  
pp. 6974-6982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paramesh Gadige ◽  
Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Electric Field ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Soft Solids ◽  
Clay Suspensions ◽  
Dc Electric Fields

Liquid-like aqueous colloidal LAPONITE® clay suspensions rapidly transform into soft solids due to the application of DC electric fields.

Plane Deformations of an Inhomogeneity–Matrix System Incorporating a Compressible Liquid Inhomogeneity and Complete Gurtin–Murdoch Interface Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Dai ◽  
Min Li ◽  
Peter Schiavone
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Solution ◽  
Elastic Solid ◽  
Compressible Liquid ◽  
External Loading ◽  
Interface Model ◽  
Interface Tension ◽  
Soft Solids ◽  
Remote Loading ◽  
Interface Elasticity ◽  
Plane Deformations

We consider the plane deformations of an infinite elastic solid containing an arbitrarily shaped compressible liquid inhomogeneity in the presence of uniform remote in-plane loading. The effects of residual interface tension and interface elasticity are incorporated into the model of deformation via the complete Gurtin–Murdoch (G–M) interface model. The corresponding boundary value problem is reformulated and analyzed in the complex plane. A concise analytical solution describing the entire stress field in the surrounding solid is found in the particular case involving a circular inhomogeneity. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the analytic solution when the uniform remote loading takes the form of a uniaxial compression. It is shown that using the simplified G–M interface model instead of the complete version may lead to significant errors in predicting the external loading-induced stress concentration in gel-like soft solids containing submicro- (or smaller) liquid inhomogeneities.

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