Soft materials
guillefix
4th November 2016 at 2:43pm
Simple liquids (fully homogeneous/isotropic). See
Fluid mechanics
. The fluid may be a
solution
, but that only changes it
chemical
properties, not its physical ones.
Several types of
complex fluids
. Main types:
Solid–liquid (
Suspension
s (particularly
Colloid
s) and
Gels
)
solid–gas (
Granular material
s, and
Fibrous material
s)
liquid–gas (
Foam
s)
liquid–liquid (
Emulsion
s)
Liquid crystals
: nematic, smectic, cholesteric, columnar, etc.
Several
polymeric
materials are soft. E.g. some
Plastic
s,
Rubber
s,
Latex
Surfactant
s
Biological matter
Many kinds of
Active matter
and
Driven matter
.
Pastes
, or
soft glassy materials