We love interactions, in particular with particles
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)
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)
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)
It is always a good idea to show cool physics in everyday objects and materials to the general audience!
Getting inspired by a feed training center to learn more about all the ways granular materials are fun, and diffucult, to work with!
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)
The GRC Conference “Granular Matter” was held again at Stonehill College.
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!
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