Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions

• Published in: Soft matter Vol. 2; no. 35; pp. 6868 - 6888
• Main Authors: Divoux, Thibaut, Agoritsas, Elisabeth, Aime, Stefano, Barentin, Catherine, Barrat, Jean-Louis, Benzi, Roberto, Berthier, Ludovic, Bi, Dapeng, Biroli, Giulio, Bonn, Daniel, Bourrianne, Philippe, Bouzid, Mehdi, Del Gado, Emanuela, Delanoë-Ayari, Hélène, Farain, Kasra, Fielding, Suzanne, Fuchs, Matthias, van der Gucht, Jasper, Henkes, Silke, Jalaal, Maziyar, Joshi, Yogesh M, Lemaître, Anaël, Leheny, Robert L, Manneville, Sébastien, Martens, Kirsten, Poon, Wilson C. K, Popovi, Marko, Procaccia, Itamar, Ramos, Laurence, Richards, James A, Rogers, Simon, Rossi, Saverio, Sbragaglia, Mauro, Tarjus, Gilles, Toschi, Federico, Trappe, Véronique, Vermant, Jan, Wyart, Matthieu, Zamponi, Francesco, Zare, Davoud
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Royal Society of Chemistry 11.09.2024
• Subjects: Amorphous materials; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical materials; Condensed Matter; Ductile-brittle transition; Gels; Mechanics; Mechanics of materials; Pastes; Physics; Questions; Soft Condensed Matter; Viscoelasticity
• ISSN: 1744-683X; 1744-6848; 1744-6848
• DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01740k

Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical engineering. Under an external deformation, these materials undergo a noteworthy transition from a solid to a liquid stat...