We love interactions, in particular with particles
Hydrogel packings reveal a curious rate dependence that can be capture with a modified non-linear spring-dashpot model.
Chandan Shakya, Luca Placidi, Anil Misra, Lars Kool, Anke Lindner, Jasper van der Gucht, Joshua A. Dijksman — Physical Review Materials 10 (2026)
It was great to be present with a Keynote (Joshua) and a poster (Tommaso) at the Powders & Grains Conference in Goa. Lots of old friends were there!
Our periodic group activity started with a dinner in the famous pub Florin in Utrecht.
Visiting Kit Windows-Yule and team at Birmingham, to see all the fascinating physics they do for flow and particle analysis!
Congratulations! The thesis can be found here.
Adding fats helps – sometimes – in lubricating of pellet manufacturing.
T.M.M. Bastiaansen, G. Verge-Mèrida, R.T. Benders, J.A. Dijksman, M. Thomas, W.H. Hendriks, S. de Vries, M. Devant, G. Bosch — Animal Feed Science and Technology 326 (2025)
What makes them stick? Temperature certainly plays a role.
Richard T. Benders, Menno Thomas, Thomas M.M. Bastiaansen, Jasper van der Gucht, Joshua A. Dijksman — Powders & Grains 2025 – 10th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media (2025)
Tom Mullin was visiting again, and the many interns and Project students also joing the fun!
Very satisfying to work with Xiaoyan Ye – who did all the heavylifting here – on this topic of how soft particles have a different way of impacting a “soft” water-air interface.
Xiaoyan Ye, Kaizhao Qin, Rui Yang, Joshua A. Dijksman — Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1013 (2025)
MultiPhase Matters