Unlike traditional lampshades made from glass or hard plastics, Soft Solids lighting uses soft, unique material - natural wax ...

Molten lava and yogurt and are well-known examples of non-Newtonian fluids, also known as soft solids. A soft solid can act like either a solid or a liquid, based upon the stress that has acted upon ...

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has engineered soft materials with highly ...

Elastohydrodynamics of soft solids and lubrication is a multifaceted research field that investigates the interplay between elastic deformations and fluid-mediated forces in thin film contacts. At its ...

Condensed matter physics, which analyzes the behavior of electrons in organized solid matter, has been treated as a completely separate field of study from soft matter physics, which deals with ...