Vivek Sharma’s Soft Matter

doi.org/10.1039/D4SM00… #Similaritysolutions of the first kind, characteristic lengths, times, & velocities, #dimensionlessnumbers, #scaling examples from #fluidmechanics #softmatter #polymerphysics #biophysics #astrophysics #cellmechanics @sorheology @ApsDsoft #kinematics

Rheological matchup of real and plant-based mayo: gel strength, strain overshoot, and yielding, plus the extended Cox–Merz rule - now published in Soft Matter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

🎉Back by popular demand! The Summer School on #SoftMatter returns to @IES_Cargese in Corsica 🌊☀️in July 2026. A unique gathering where soft matter physics meets sensory perception 🌀👂👀! 📚Program, list of amazing speakers & registration: 👉 softsensory.sciencesconf.org cc @CNRS

Satish Kumar (Univ. of Minnesota), has been chosen to present AIChE’s William R. Schowalter Lecture at the 2025 #AIChEAnnual Meeting, Nov. 2–6 in Boston, MA. bit.ly/4mJFFwW @UMNews #fluidmechanics #chemicalengineering

Getting excited for the in-person Future of Rheology session at our Annual Meeting #SoR2025 in Santa Fe where past speakers will reprise their virtual talks. The Future of Rheology is bright! Thank you @SandiaLabs for your sponsorship!

Words that help us belong—how grassroots libraries are shaping lives, from Assam to Karnataka Madhurita Goswami @Madhurita15 reports #ThePrintEducation theprint.in/india/educatio…

SoR is excited to announce that Safa Jamali is the Society of Rheology 2025 Metzner awardee for contributions to the understanding of #suspensions, attractive #colloids, and #machine_learning techniques in rheology. We will celebrate Safa at our annual meeting this October!

[Publication] #Rheology of animal and plant milk doi.org/10.1063/5.0261… contrasts shear viscosity, & also #pinchingdynamics #extensionalrheology noticing pronounced #shearthinning for many plant-based milks & also elastocapillary pinching for a few. #foodscience #dosrheometry

Attending the APS Global Physics Summit this coming week? Come check out some of the work we do in @Odeslab at UIC! Looking forward to a great conference - see you there!

I am happy to share our latest scientific work. Self-Assembly and Transport Phenomena of Colloids: Confinement and Geometrical Effects | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/3XrJICM @Fernand31028044 @UdeGuanajuato @pavkakinka

Join us Thursday, February 27th for another installment of our Future of Rheology seminar series. We will hear about the rheology of real and vegan mayo by Nadia Nikolova and rigid clusters in shear thickening suspensions by Michel Orsi.

@AlbanSauret @softmatter @ClarkSchool @UCSBengineering Fascinating & inspiring: I will spend time with it to learn more about cohesion.

Stickiness matters! From powder handling to geophysical flows, cohesion in granular material plays a crucial role. We review in @softmatter experimental approaches to create and control inter-particle adhesion pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… @ClarkSchool @UCSBengineering

See you at the AIChE Meeting @ChEnected in San Diego. Here is the list of talks — new directions in #plantbasedfoods, dense suspensions/ emulsions, and dispensing #yieldstressfluids. @UICEngineering @UIC_ChE #everythingflows #polymerphysics #fluidmechanics #rheology

Fantastic & exhilarating @SoRheology meeting. Talks by @LouieEdano @Chenxian_Xu #KarimAlZahabi @NadiaNikolovaSM et al. on #foodscience #plantbased #interfacial #fizzics #dosrheometry & from inspiring friends, mentors, collaborators, awardees, #industrypartners & #rheologists!

Farewell #Austin! What a wonderful @RheologySociety meeting this year. Such a pleasure to (re)connect with our rheo-community! Big thanks to @rtbonnecaze & his team, @KendraErk and @SafaJamali for putting together such a great program! #everythingflows #rheology #Texas

#SOR2024 is about to start! Looking forward to 4 intense days of rheology #everythingflows @SoRheology @UTAustin

@AlexanderRKlotz @softmatter @lenahassan79 @Chenxian_Xu @motiffoodworks Depends on the day & time. Mayo, nail lacquer, milk, ketchup, shampoo, cosmetic creams, wine, and soap solutions are some of the examples of complex fluids and formulations explored in our lab!

@Odeslab @softmatter @lenahassan79 @Chenxian_Xu @motiffoodworks The Sharma lab must smell delicious.

[Publication] #Bubbly Life & Death of Animal & #PlantBased milk foams in @softmatter doi.org/10.1039/D4SM00… Led by @lenahassan79 & @Chenxian_Xu & UGs #MonseReynoso #KarimAlZahabi #Ramiro w/ #ReedNicholson #MichaelBoehm #StefanBaier @motiffoodworks #PlantBased #Soymilk #oatmilk

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic. Read more about their story: bit.ly/3XI7KK3

We analyzed the formability & foam stability differences for cold cow & soy milk, including for foams created using an electric frother: youtu.be/G-IuFL9o4TQ Supplementary video in the Soft Matter article on #veganmilks #PlantBased #milkalternatives #milksubstitutes

#MilkHistory: Milk means #PlantMilk too. #SamuelJohnson's dictionary (18th century) had two entries for milk: (1) the liquor w/ which animals feed their young. (2) #Emulsion made by contusion of seeds, w/ Shakespeare's quotes for animal milk & Bacon's for nourishing #almondmilk.

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.