How to deform an egg yolk? On the Study of Soft Matter Deformation in a Liquid Environment
Abstract
In this paper, we report a novel experimental and theoretical study to examine the response of a soft capsule bathed in a liquid environment to sudden external impacts. Taking an egg yolk as an example, we found that the soft matter is not sensitive to translational impacts, but is very sensitive to rotational, especially decelerating-rotational impacts, during which the centrifugal force and the shape of the membrane together play a critical role causing the deformation of the soft object. This finding, as the first study of its kind, reveals the fundamental physics behind the motion and deformation of a membrane-bound soft object, e.g., egg yolk, cells, soft brain matter, etc., in response to external impacts.
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@article{arxiv.2010.13522,
title = {How to deform an egg yolk? On the Study of Soft Matter Deformation in a Liquid Environment},
author = {Ji Lang and Rungun Nathan and Qianhong Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.13522},
year = {2021}
}
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