Category Archives: Publications

Can rheology say something about the retention time of digesta? It seems so – but more work is needed to better characterize the samples and improve statistics. Sebastian Dorado-Montenegro, Joshua A. Dijksman, Walter J.J. Gerrits, Sonja de Vries — Animal Feed Science and Technology 321 (2025) 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2025.116242

Lubricating interfaces with “third bodies” is common; here we do model studies to investigate how such lubricating suspensions introduce new lubrication regimes. Raisa E.D. Rudge, Heather M. Shewan, Jason R. Stokes, Joshua A. Dijksman, Elke Scholten — Tribology International 202 (2025) 10.1016/j.triboint.2024.110235

How to combine bulk solids testing with imaging? Zohreh and team wrote a review article on the topic in the famous KONA journal. Zohreh Farmani, Jan A. Wieringa, John van Duynhoven, Joshua A. Dijksman — KONA Powder and Particle Journal 42, 57–78 (2025) 10.14356/kona.2025014

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

Not all granular samples are simple – often mixtures of soft and hard particles are present. The mixture flow behavior can be quite different, as it turns out. Bo Fan, Tivadar Pongó, Joshua A. Dijksman, Jasper van der Gucht, Tamás Börzsönyi — Soft Matter 21, 3859–3867 (2025) 10.1039/d5sm00354g

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

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

A webinar on soft particle mechanics! Joshua Dijksman — Cassyni (2024) 10.52843/cassyni.t51rdh

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

Our hypothesis from prior work was confirmed: the mechanical load acting on the hydrogel packing determines its creep rate. Very satisfying to see such intuition work out! J.A. Dijksman, T. Mullin — Soft Matter 20, 4015–4020 (2024) 10.1039/d3sm01755a