Humans implicitly rely on properties of the materials that make up ordinary objects to guide our interactions. Grasping smooth materials, for example, requires more care than rough ones, and softness is an ideal property for fabric used in bedding. Even when these properties are not purely visual (softness is a physical property of the material), we may still infer the softness of a fabric by l...

Changes in the textural properties of rice cookies as a result of using roasted soybean flour (RSF) as an additive were investigated in this study. RSF was replaced as 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 20% of 100 g of rice flour. The addition of RSF increased the hardness of dough and cookies as measured by texture analyzer (TA), whereas moisture content of dough and cookies decreased upon addition of RSF. F...

Contrary to common belief, the softness of polymer gels is determined by negative energy elasticity and not only entropy elasticity, a key finding for designing used in medical applications at various temperatures.

Summary Advances in flexible and stretchable electronics have enabled an unprecedented level of coupling between bio-tissues by overcoming obstacles associated with the bio-tissues' curvilinearity, softness, deformability, wetness. This review begins detailing outstanding challenges achieving body-conformable stemming from disparate properties man-made materials complexity their interf...

Ab initio pseudopotentials are a linchpin of modern molecular and condensed matter electronic structure calculations. In this work, we employ multi-objective optimization to maximize pseudopotential softness while maintaining high accuracy transferability. To accomplish this, develop formulation in which simultaneously maximized, with determined by the ability reproduce all-electron energy diff...

Graphical representation of the presented work. By a careful selection building block types and composition, it was possible to generate set transparent photocuring polymers with tuneable softness viscoelastic behaviour.