Capillary-induced adhesive contact dynamics determines dissipation and flow structure in wetted hydrogel packings

Capillary interactions change the flow of granular materials – of course. How this works for hydrogel spheres and partially wetted systems has been clarified further in this work.

Zohreh Farmani, Jing Wang, Ralf Stannarius, Joshua A. Dijksman — Soft Matter 21, 5468–5479 (2025)

10.1039/d5sm00221d