Issue 41, 2013

The jamming perspective on wet foams

Abstract

Amorphous materials as diverse as foams, emulsions, colloidal suspensions and granular media can jam into a rigid, disordered state where they withstand finite shear stresses before yielding. The jamming transition has been studied extensively, in particular in computer simulations of frictionless, soft, purely repulsive spheres. Foams and emulsions are the closest realizations of this model, and in foams, the (un)jamming point corresponds to the wet limit, where the bubbles become spherical and just form contacts. Here we sketch the relevance of the jamming perspective for the geometry, mechanics and rheology of foams.

Graphical abstract: The jamming perspective on wet foams

Article information

Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
03 Jun 2013
Accepted
16 Aug 2013
First published
16 Aug 2013

Soft Matter, 2013,9, 9739-9746

The jamming perspective on wet foams

G. Katgert, B. P. Tighe and M. van Hecke, Soft Matter, 2013, 9, 9739 DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51543E

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