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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Soft Solids
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Emanuela Del Gado\, Georgetown University\, USA\nElastic
 ity\, Rigidity and Rheology of Soft Particulate Gels\n \n\n\nMany materia
 ls we eat\, spread\, squeeze\, or 3D print are gels — soft\, amorphous 
 solids whose solid component is constituted by a network of self-assemble
 d particles or agglomerated smaller units (proteins\, polymers or other p
 articulates). The understanding of the emergence of rigidity and of the r
 ole of stress localization in the mechanics of this type of gels has just
  started\, but it is clearly key to designing and expanding their perform
 ances and functions. I will discuss new insight into the fundamental phy
 sics that control rigidity\, elasticity and rheology of soft particulate 
 gels. Mechanical heterogeneities\, often not recognizable from structures
  and morphologies\, translate into stress and strain localization when th
 e material is deformed or under load. The outstanding questions are wheth
 er there exist organizing principles in the gel microstructures that can 
 encompass different compositions and gelation processes and whether it is
  possible to identify common underlying mechanisms in the rheological re
 sponse.\n\n\n\nBio: Emanuela Del Gado is Professor In the Department of Ph
 ysics at Georgetown University in Washington DC\, where she also currentl
 y serves as Director of the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrol
 ogy. She received her undergraduate degree (Laurea in Physics\, cum laude)
  at the University of Naples "Federico II" in Italy\, where she also obtai
 ned a PhD in Physics in 2001. She was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universi
 ty of Montpellier in France and a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich i
 n Switzerland\,  and held visiting positions at ESPCI Paris and MIT. Bef
 ore joining Georgetown University as Associate Professor with tenure in 20
 14\, Emanuela was a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Assistant Pro
 fessor in the Department of Civil\, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
  at ETH Zurich. In 2016 and 2018 she was awarded a Chair Joliot and a Pari
 s Science Chair at ESPCI Paris. In 2017 she became Georgetown University P
 rovost’s Distinguished Associate Professor and was MIT - CEE C.C. MEI Di
 stinguished Speaker. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemis
 try in 2018 and Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2020. 
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