Water migration through heterogeneous soft materials is central to many applications including oil recovery and consumer product stability of foods cosmetics. This slow water transport affects all material properties such as mechanical, optical electrical, but its understanding modelling remains challenging due complex wetting diffusion processes across the material. Here, we study experimental...

The need for higher energy-density rechargeable batteries has generated interest in alkali metal electrodes paired with solid electrolytes. However, penetration and electrolyte fracture at low current densities have emerged as fundamental barriers. Here we show that pure metals the Li–Na–K system, critical scale inversely to mechanical deformation resistance. Furthermore, demonstrate two electr...

Understanding the impact of rheological properties of food on postprandial appetite and glycemic response helps to design novel functional products. It has been shown that solid foods have a stronger satiating effect than their liquid equivalent. However, whether a subtle change in viscosity of a semi-solid food would have a similar effect on appetite is unknown. Fifteen healthy males participa...

Lightweight alloys produced by pressurized castings suffer from flow-induced microstructural segregation due to the migration of externally solidified crystals (ESCs). Although some qualitative research has been carried out on ESCs migration, quantitative prediction it is still demanded. In this respect, an model based hydrodynamics and rheological behaviour semi-solid metals (SSMs) proposed es...