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Dynamical Heterogeneity in the Supercooled Liquid State of the Phase Change Material GeTe by Sosso, Gabriele C, Colombo, Jader, Behler, Jörg, Del Gado, Emanuela, Bernasconi, Marco

“…A contending technology for nonvolatile memories of the next generation is based on a remarkable property of chalcogenide alloys known as phase change…”
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The physics of cement cohesion by Goyal, Abhay, Palaia, Ivan, Ioannidou, Katerina, Ulm, Franz-Josef, van Damme, Henri, Pellenq, Roland J.-M., Trizac, Emmanuel, Del Gado, Emanuela

“…Ion-water restructuring under confinement is at the origin of ion-specific nanoscale forces that control cement cohesion. Cement is the most produced material…”
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Network Topology in Soft Gels: Hardening and Softening Materials by Bouzid, Mehdi, Del Gado, Emanuela

“…The structural complexity of soft gels is at the origin of a versatile mechanical response that allows for large deformation, controlled elastic recovery, and…”
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Elastically driven intermittent microscopic dynamics in soft solids by Bouzid, Mehdi, Colombo, Jader, Barbosa, Lucas Vieira, Del Gado, Emanuela

“…Soft solids with tunable mechanical response are at the core of new material technologies, but a crucial limit for applications is their progressive aging over…”
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The crucial effect of early-stage gelation on the mechanical properties of cement hydrates by Ioannidou, Katerina, Kanduč, Matej, Li, Lunna, Frenkel, Daan, Dobnikar, Jure, Del Gado, Emanuela

“…Gelation and densification of calcium–silicate–hydrate take place during cement hydration. Both processes are crucial for the development of cement strength,…”
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Correlated Rigidity Percolation and Colloidal Gels by Zhang, Shang, Zhang, Leyou, Bouzid, Mehdi, Rocklin, D Zeb, Del Gado, Emanuela, Mao, Xiaoming

“…Rigidity percolation (RP) occurs when mechanical stability emerges in disordered networks as constraints or components are added. Here we discuss RP with…”
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Microscopic picture of cooperative processes in restructuring gel networks by Colombo, Jader, Widmer-Cooper, Asaph, Del Gado, Emanuela

“…Colloidal gel networks are disordered elastic solids that can form even in extremely dilute particle suspensions. With interaction strengths comparable to the…”
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Mesoscale texture of cement hydrates by Ioannidou, Katerina, Krakowiak, Konrad J., Bauchy, Mathieu, Hoover, Christian G., Masoero, Enrico, Yip, Sidney, Ulm, Franz-Josef, Levitz, Pierre, Pellenq, Roland J.-M., Del Gado, Emanuela

“…Strength and other mechanical properties of cement and concrete rely upon the formation of calcium–silicate–hydrates (C–S–H) during cement hydration…”
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Nano-granular texture of cement hydrates by Ioannidou, Katerina, Ulm, Franz-Josef, Levitz, Pierre, Del Gado, Emanuela, Pellenq, Roland J.-M.

“…Mechanical behavior of concrete crucially depends on cement hydrates, the “glue” of cement. The design of high performance and more environmentally friendly…”
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Elasticity of arrested short-ranged attractive colloids: homogeneous and heterogeneous glasses by Zaccone, Alessio, Wu, Hua, Del Gado, Emanuela

“…We evaluate the elasticity of arrested short-ranged attractive colloids by combining an analytically solvable elastic model with a hierarchical arrest scheme…”
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Disease-causing mutation in α-actinin-4 promotes podocyte detachment through maladaptation to periodic stretch by Feng, Di, Notbohm, Jacob, Benjamin, Ava, He, Shijie, Wang, Minxian, Ang, Lay-Hong, Bantawa, Minaspi, Bouzid, Mehdi, Del Gado, Emanuela, Krishnan, Ramaswamy, Pollak, Martin R.

“…α-Actinin-4 (ACTN4) bundles and cross-links actin filaments to confer mechanical resilience to the reconstituted actin network. How this resilience is built…”
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Controlling local packing and growth in calcium-silicate-hydrate gels by Ioannidou, Katerina, Pellenq, Roland J-M, Del Gado, Emanuela

“…We investigate the development of gels under out-of-equilibrium conditions, such as calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) gels that form during cement hydration and…”
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Length-scale-dependent relaxation in colloidal gels by Del Gado, Emanuela, Kob, Walter

“…We use molecular dynamics computer simulations to investigate the relaxation dynamics of a simple model for a colloidal gel at a low volume fraction. We find…”
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Revealing the principal attributes of protein adsorption on block copolymer surfaces with direct experimental evidence at the single protein level by Xie, Tian, Chattoraj, Joyjit, Mulcahey, Patrick J, Kelleher, Noah P, Del Gado, Emanuela, Hahm, Jong-In

“…Understanding protein adsorption onto polymer surfaces is of great importance in designing biomaterials, improving bioanalytical devices, and controlling…”
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Probing a critical length scale at the glass transition by Mosayebi, Majid, Del Gado, Emanuela, Ilg, Patrick, Ottinger, Hans Christian

“…We give evidence of a clear structural signature of the glass transition, in terms of a static correlation length with the same dependence on the system size,…”
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Shear-driven solidification of dilute colloidal suspensions by Zaccone, Alessio, Gentili, Daniele, Wu, Hua, Morbidelli, Massimo, Del Gado, Emanuela

“…We show that shear-induced solidification of dilute charge-stabilized colloids is due to the interplay between shear-induced formation and breakage of large…”
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Prestressed elasticity of amorphous solids by Zhang, Shang, Stanifer, Ethan, Vasisht, Vishwas V., Zhang, Leyou, Del Gado, Emanuela, Mao, Xiaoming

“…Prestress in amorphous solids bears the memory of their formation and plays a profound role in their mechanical properties. Here we develop a set of…”
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Low-Index ZnO Crystal Plane-Specific Binding Behavior of Whole Immunoglobulin G Proteins by Xie, Tian, Song, Sheng, Schwenke, Konrad, Singh, Manpreet, Gonzalez, Lorelis E, Del Gado, Emanuela, Hahm, Jong-in

“…Crystallographic surface-resolved examination of protein–ZnO interactions can greatly enhance the fundamental understanding of protein adsorption on these…”
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Editorial: Probing out-of-equilibrium soft matter by Bischofberger, Irmgard, Castañeda-Priego, Ramón, Cerbino, Roberto, Cipelletti, Luca, Gado, Emanuela Del, Fernandez-Nieves, Alberto

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Soft Modes and Nonaffine Rearrangements in the Inherent Structures of Supercooled Liquids by Mosayebi, Majid, Ilg, Patrick, Widmer-Cooper, Asaph, Del Gado, Emanuela

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