For centuries, doctors have used their hands as essential diagnostic tools - exploring joints and palpating abdomens to assess a patient's health. Often a cancer will reveal itself as a lump or ...

The study of nonlinear elasticity and viscoelasticity occupies a pivotal role in continuum mechanics, providing essential frameworks to describe materials undergoing large deformations and ...

One of these is not like the others: honey, water, ketchup, and blood. The answer? Water, because the other three are all non-Newtonian fluid. When Isaac Newton first defined the properties of an ...

Fundamental aspects of polymer rheology, including the theory of linear viscoelasticity, measurement of fundamental flow properties, constitutive equations, the kinetic- molecular theories of ...

Most automotive multigrade oils contain high molecular weight polymeric viscosity index improvers (VIIs) and are to a greater or lesser extent, viscoelastic liquids. A way of characterising lubricant ...

A project led by Spain's ICFO research center has developed a novel optical tweezer arrangement able to assess the viscoelastic properties of biological materials. Quantifying the mechanical responses ...