Correlated disorder and viscoelasticity of soft colloidal gels

• Grant number: 23/00067-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2023
• End date: March 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Danilo Barbosa Liarte
• Grantee: Jorge Mario Escobar Agudelo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/14285-3 - Geometry, topology and complex fluids: applications to liquid crystals and disordered elastic systems, AP.JP
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/12163-6 - Simulations and scaling of disordered elastic systems: Soft colloidal gels and sheared dense suspensions, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The student will develop a comprehensive quantitative theory for the universal mechanical properties of disordered elastic systems near the onset of rigidity, with focus on the analytical and numerical investigation of the role played by correlated disorder in the design and mechanical behavior of diverse disordered elastic systems with relevance to soft colloidal gels.