Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions

Thibaut Divoux; Elisabeth Agoritsas; Stefano Aime; Catherine Barentin; Jean-Louis Barrat; Roberto Benzi; Ludovic Berthier; Dapeng Bi; Giulio Biroli; Daniel Bonn; Philippe Bourrianne; Mehdi Bouzid; Emanuela Del Gado; Hélène Delanoë-Ayari; Kasra Farain; Suzanne Fielding; Matthias Fuchs; Jasper van der Gucht; Silke Henkes; Maziyar Jalaal; Yogesh M. Joshi; Anaël Lemaître; Robert L. Leheny; Sébastien Manneville; Kirsten Martens; Wilson C. K. Poon; Marko Popović; Itamar Procaccia; Laurence Ramos; James A. Richards; Simon Rogers; Saverio Rossi; Mauro Sbragaglia; Gilles Tarjus; Federico Toschi; Véronique Trappe; Jan Vermant; Matthieu Wyart; Francesco Zamponi; Davoud Zare

doi:10.1039/D3SM01740K

Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions

Thibaut Divoux,

*ⁿ Elisabeth Agoritsas,

^j Stefano Aime,

^a Catherine Barentin,

^b Jean-Louis Barrat,

^f Roberto Benzi,

^l Ludovic Berthier,

^d Dapeng Bi,

^y Giulio Biroli,^f Daniel Bonn,

^c Philippe Bourrianne,

^t Mehdi Bouzid,

^s Emanuela Del Gado,

^p Hélène Delanoë-Ayari,

^b Kasra Farain,

^c Suzanne Fielding,

^af Matthias Fuchs,

^u Jasper van der Gucht,

^r Silke Henkes,

^ag Maziyar Jalaal,

^z Yogesh M. Joshi,

^w Anaël Lemaître,

ⁱ Robert L. Leheny,

^k Sébastien Manneville,

ⁿ Kirsten Martens,

^ab Wilson C. K. Poon,

^e Marko Popović,

^o Itamar Procaccia,^hae Laurence Ramos,

^d James A. Richards,

^e Simon Rogers,

^x Saverio Rossi,

^g Mauro Sbragaglia,

^l Gilles Tarjus,

^g Federico Toschi,

^mad Véronique Trappe,^v Jan Vermant,

^q Matthieu Wyart,

^j Francesco Zamponi

^fac and Davoud Zare^aaah

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* Corresponding authors

^a Molecular, Macromolecular Chemistry, and Materials, ESPCI Paris, Paris, France

^b Univ. de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France

^c Soft Matter Group, van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands

^d Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France

^e SUPA and the School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK

^f Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France

^g LPTMC, CNRS-UMR 7600, Sorbonne Université, 4 Pl. Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France

^h Dept. of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

ⁱ Navier, École des Ponts, Univ Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, Marne-la-Vallée, France

^j Department of Quantum Matter Physics (DQMP), University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 24, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

^k Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA

^l Department of Physics & INFN, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Rome, Italy

^m Department of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

ⁿ ENSL, CNRS, Laboratoire de physique, F-69342 Lyon, France
E-mail: Thibaut.Divoux@ens-lyon.fr

^o Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str.38, 01187 Dresden, Germany

^p Georgetown University, Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Washington, DC, USA

^q Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 5, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland

^r Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter, Wageningen University & Research, Stippeneng 4, 6708WE Wageningen, The Netherlands

^s Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, 3SR, F-38000 Grenoble, France

^t PMMH, CNRS, ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

^u Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany

^v Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland

^w Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, Uttar Pradesh, India

^x Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

^y Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA

^z Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

^aa Fonterra Research and Development Centre, Dairy Farm Road, Fitzherbert, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand

^ab Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France

^ac Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy

^ad CNR-IAC, Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Rome, Italy

^ae Sino-Europe Complex Science Center, School of Mathematics, North University of China, Shanxi, Taiyuan 030051, China

^af Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK

^ag Lorentz Institute, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

^ah Nestlé Institute of Food Sciences, Nestlé Research, Vers Chez les Blancs, Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract

Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical engineering. Under an external deformation, these materials undergo a noteworthy transition from a solid to a liquid state that reshapes the material microstructure. This yielding transition was the main theme of a workshop held from January 9 to 13, 2023 at the Lorentz Center in Leiden. The manuscript presented here offers a critical perspective on the subject, synthesizing insights from the various brainstorming sessions and informal discussions that unfolded during this week of vibrant exchange of ideas. The result of these exchanges takes the form of a series of open questions that represent outstanding experimental, numerical, and theoretical challenges to be tackled in the near future.

This article is part of the themed collection: Soft Matter Recent Review Articles, 2024

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