2011/10/05 by Gijs Katgert, Brian P. Tighe, Martin van Hecke · 1 citation
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Amorphous solid #Chemistry #Composite material #Condensed matter physics #Crystallography #Geometry #Granular material #Jamming #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Mathematics #Mechanics #Nanotechnology #Perspective (graphical) #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Physics #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Rheology #SPHERES #Shear (geology) #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/c3sm51543e
published as Soft Matter 9, 9739-9746 (2013) · 7 Figs., 21 pages, Review article
arxiv created 2011/10/05 · openalex publication_date 2013/01/01 · arxiv updated 2016/07/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Amorphous materials as diverse as foams, emulsions, colloidal suspensions and granular media can jam into a rigid, disordered state where they withstand finite shear stresses before yielding. The jamming transition has been studied extensively, in particular in computer simulations of frictionless, soft, purely repulsive spheres. Foams and emulsions are the closest realizations of this model, and in foams, the (un)jamming point corresponds to the wet limit, where the bubbles become spherical and just form contacts. Here we sketch the relevance of the jamming perspective for the geometry, mechanics and rheology of foams.