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Contact tribology also affects the slow flow behavior of granular emulsions

After years of reviewer agony we finally managed to get our paper on hydrogel suspensions out in the Journal of Rheology!

Mechanics of composite hydrogels approaching phase separation

In an effective collaboration with Renko de Vries and Jasper van der Gucht, we found that model compistes give direct mechanical access to how hydrogel composites are assembled, and how they fail.

Thanks

Thanks to the EU for funding our new ITN “CALIPER” in which we aim to connect 3D experimentalists with DEM experts to improve our understanding of granular materials.

We will miss you!

Arriving just too late, or just in time?

Symmetry-reversals in chiral active matter

Interactions between actively driven, spinning particles determine their collective behavior! Nice collaboration with Karen Daniels from NCSU. Our work also graced the back cover of the journal Soft Matter.

Dutch Soft Matter Meeting

The Dutch Soft Matter community‘s bi-annual meeting. This time in Utrecht.

Klokhuis Vragendag

Upping the demo game at the annual Klokhuis Vragendag in NEMO Science museum.

Intro Thermo version B – PCC23303

Rum-inating on specific volume.

The second WUR Rheology course

With co-organizer Leonard Sagis presenting.

Marcel Workamp graduated

Marcel Workamp graduated with a very nice thesis that covered active matter, soft particle suspension flows, microfluidics and hydrogel particle synthesis! You can find his thesis here and him on LinkedIn.