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
Author Archives: joshuadijksman
Separating the effect of die geometry and mash residence time in the die on biomass and livestock feed pellet manufacturing
Pelleting is extrusion. T.M.M. Bastiaansen, R.T. Benders, J.A. Dijksman, M. Thomas, W.H. Hendriks, S. de Vries, G. Bosch — Biomass and Bioenergy 190, 107383 (2024) 10.1016/j.biombioe.2024.107383
Phase segregation lubricates paste extrusion
Thin films and particles combined! R.T. Benders, M. Thomas, T.M.M. Bastiaansen, R. Fix, Mario Scheel, G. Bosch, S. de Vries, J. van der Gucht, J.A. Dijksman — arXiv, 1–26 (2024) 10.48550/arXiv.2410.04593
Open Day at Science Park
It is always a good idea to show cool physics in everyday objects and materials to the general audience!
Zohreh Farmani graduated
Congratulations! The thesis can be found here. Zohreh can also be found on LinkedIn.
Webinar: “And you thought doing soft particle mechanics is relaxing?”
A webinar on soft particle mechanics! Joshua Dijksman — Cassyni (2024) 10.52843/cassyni.t51rdh
Applied Granular Materials
Getting inspired by a feed training center to learn more about all the ways granular materials are fun, and diffucult, to work with!
Fibre bundle models as a framework for the detachment dynamics of soft probabilistic fasteners
Soft hook-and-loop fasteneres have an interesting detachment dynamics. Here our collaborators showed that these detachments can be modeled with a fiber bundle model approach. A.D. Filippov, P. Sharma, F. Helmendach, J.A. Dijksman, R.C. Hidalgo — Frontiers in Physics 12 (2024) 10.3389/fphy.2024.1412352
Gordon Research Conference
The GRC Conference “Granular Matter” was held again at Stonehill College.
Tom Mullin visits
Tom Mullin was visiting us this week, to discuss our projects on sinking (and rising) intruders in soft hydrogel packings. We had a great time with many inspiring discussions to stimulate another work of science. The first year students helping out on the project could also join for the dinner, connecting several generations of scientists!
