Fractures in complex fluids: the case of transient networks

From viscous fingering to elastic instabilities

(2012) S. Mora et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

Extreme Strain Localization and Sliding Friction in Physically Associating Polymer Gels

(2012) Kendra A. Erk et al.   LANGMUIR

Mesoporous organohydrogels from thermogelling photocrosslinkable nanoemulsions

(2012) Matthew E. Helgeson et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Criterion for Extensional Necking Instability in Polymeric Fluids

(2011) Suzanne M. Fielding   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Structural Signature of a Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Self-Assembled Networks

(2011) Laurence Ramos et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Stress Enhancement in the Delayed Yielding of Colloidal Gels

(2011) Joris Sprakel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Propagation of a brittle fracture in a viscoelastic fluid

(2011) Hervé Tabuteau et al.   Soft Matter

The kinetic approach to fracture in transient networks

(2011) S. Mora   Soft Matter

Cooperative Effect of Stress and Ion Displacement on the Dynamics of Cross-Link Unzipping and Rupture of Alginate Gels

(2010) T. Baumberger et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Rheology of associative polymer solutions

(2010) Christophe Chassenieux et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

A convective instability mechanism for quasistatic crack branching in a hydrogel

(2010) T. Baumberger et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

Fracture and Self-Healing in a Well-Defined Self-Assembled Polymer Network

(2010) Paulina J. Skrzeszewska et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Saffman-Taylor instability of viscoelastic fluids: From viscous fingering to elastic fractures

(2010) S. Mora et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Shear Banding and Flow-Concentration Coupling in Colloidal Glasses

(2010) R. Besseling et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Transient Shear Banding in a Simple Yield Stress Fluid

(2010) Thibaut Divoux et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Colloquium: Failure of molecules, bones, and the Earth itself

(2010) Markus J. Buehler et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Failure processes in elastic fiber bundles

(2010) Srutarshi Pradhan et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Rupture in rapid uniaxial extension of linear entangled melts

(2010) Yangyang Wang et al.   RHEOLOGICA ACTA

Transition from “brittle” to “ductile” rheological behavior by tuning the morphology of self-assembled networks

(2010) T. Tixier et al.   Soft Matter

Slow dynamics of wormlike micelles

(2010) U. Olsson et al.   Soft Matter

Precision Gels from Collagen-Inspired Triblock Copolymers

(2009) Marc W. T. Werten et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Considère reconsidered: Necking of polymeric liquids

(2009) Christopher J.S. Petrie   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

From thermally activated to viscosity controlled fracture of biopolymer hydrogels

(2009) T. Baumberger et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Nonlinear Rheology of Surfactant Wormlike Micelles Bridged by Telechelic Polymers

(2009) Hervé Tabuteau et al.   LANGMUIR

Step Shear of Entangled Linear Polymer Melts: New Experimental Evidence for Elastic Yielding

(2009) Pouyan E. Boukany et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Intermittent dynamics in transient polymer networks under shear: Signs of self-organized criticality

(2009) Joris Sprakel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Saffman-Taylor instability for generalized Newtonian fluids

(2009) S. Mora et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Microscopic Mechanisms of the Brittleness of Viscoelastic Fluids

(2009) H. Tabuteau et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Physical gels of telechelic triblock copolymers with precisely defined junction multiplicity

(2009) Paulina J. Skrzeszewska et al.   Soft Matter

Failure-mode transition in transient polymer networks with particle-based simulations

(2009) J. Sprakel et al.   Soft Matter

Linear viscoelasticity of entangled wormlike micelles bridged by telechelic polymers: An experimental model for a double transient network

(2008) Kaori Nakaya–Yaegashi et al.   JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY

Use of Particle-Tracking Velocimetry and Flow Birefringence To Study Nonlinear Flow Behavior of Entangled Wormlike Micellar Solution:  From Wall Slip, Bulk Disentanglement to Chain Scission

(2008) Pouyan E. Boukany et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Self-healing and thermoreversible rubber from supramolecular assembly

(2008) Philippe Cordier et al.   NATURE

Dynamics of polymer bridge formation and disruption

(2008) Joris Sprakel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Ductility versus Brittleness in Self-Assembled Transient Networks

(2008) Hérvé Tabuteau et al.   PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS SUPPLEMENT

Physics of liquid jets

(2008) Jens Eggers et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Effect of a controlled pre-deformation history on extensional viscosity of dilute polymer solutions

(2008) Shelley L. Anna et al.   RHEOLOGICA ACTA

Recent experimental probes of shear banding

(2008) Sébastien Manneville   RHEOLOGICA ACTA

Perspectives on shear banding in complex fluids

(2008) Peter D. Olmsted   RHEOLOGICA ACTA

Fracture and large strain behavior of self-assembled triblock copolymer gels

(2008) Michelle E. Seitz et al.   Soft Matter