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We study the fracture of reversible double transient networks, constituted of water suspensions of entangled surfactant wormlike micelles reversibly linked by various amounts of telechelic polymers. We provide a state diagram that delineates the regime of fracture without necking of the filament from the regime where no fracture or break-up has been observed. We show that filaments fracture when stretched at a rate larger than the inverse of the slowest relaxation time of the networks. We quantitatively demonstrate that dissipation processes are not relevant in our experimental conditions and that, depending on the density of nodes in the networks, fracture occurs in the linear viscoelastic regime or in a non-linear regime. In addition, analysis of the crack opening profiles indicates deviations from a parabolic shape close to the crack tip for weakly connected networks. We demonstrate a direct correlation between the amplitude of the deviation from the parabolic shape and the amount of non linear viscoelasticity.

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Our project is focused on the development of a continuous encapsulation process based on the crossing of an interface by droplets of an active ingredient that have to be encapsulated. The aqueous drops are injected in an organic phase, and as the system rotates each drop is driven outwards until it reaches the interface. Under adequate conditions, it crosses the interface and at a high inertia it drives a volume of organic phase which constitutes the coating

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In this paper we present geometrical measurements made on aqueous polyacrylamide gels withlab-based micro-tomography, one of the most convenient ways of accessing a quantitative measurement of thefascinating shapes that these materials make when hanging under their own weight.

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A single-drop experiment based on the collision of one drop of liquid on a small solid target is used to produce liquid sheets that are visualized with a fast camera. Upon impact, the drop flattens into a sheet that is bounded by a thicker rim and radially expanding in air. Emulsion-based liquid sheets are destabilized through the nucleation of holes that perforate the sheet during its expansion. The holes grow until they merge together and form a web of ligaments, which are then destabilized into drops. We propose the perforation mechanism as a sequence of two necessary steps. The emulsion oil droplets first enter the air/water interface, and then spread at the interface. We show that the formulation of the emulsion is a critical parameter to control the perforation as the addition of salt or amphiphilic copolymers can trigger or completely inhibit the perforation mechanism. We demonstrate that the entering of the droplets at the air/water interface is the limiting step of the mechanism. Thin-film forces such as electrostatic or steric repulsion forces stabilize the thin film formed between the interface and the approaching oil droplets, thus preventing the entering of droplets at the interface and in turn inhibiting the perforation process. We theoretically rationalize the successive steps in the approach and entering of an oil droplet at the film interface and the role of salt and amphiphilic polymer in the different steps.

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Model gluten gels

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We investigate the dynamics of thin sheets freely expanding in air. The sheets are produced by impacting a drop onto a small target or onto a cushion of liquid nitrogen, in order to suppress any dissipation process. To disentangle the role of capillary, viscous and elastic forces in the dynamics of the sheets several materials are used, whose rheological characteristics are tuned over several orders of magnitude: viscous liquids, viscoelastic Maxwell fluids characterized by an elastic modulus, $G_0$, a relaxation time, $\tau$, and a zero-shear viscosity,$\eta_0=G_0 \tau$, and ultrasoft solids with elastic modulus as low as 10 Pa. For viscoelastic fluids, when$\tau$ is shorter than the typical lifetime of the sheet (~ 10 ms), the dynamics of the sheet is similar to that of Newtonian viscous liquids with equal zero-shear viscosity. In that case, the maximal expansion of the sheet, $d_{\rm{max}}$, decreases with $\eta_0$ and can be quantitatively accounted for by a model based on the viscous dissipation on the target. On the other hand, when $\tau$ is longer than the typical lifetime of the sheet, the behavior drastically differs. The sheet expansion is strongly enhanced as compared to that of viscous samples with comparable zero-shear viscosity, but is heterogeneous with the occurrence of cracks, revealing the elastic nature of the viscoelastic fluid. By contrast, sheets produced with ultrasoft solids expand but never break. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the surface tension of the soft elastic drops must be taken into account in order to successfully model their expansion. Overall, we have rationalized the spreading of sheets for viscous, viscoelastic and elastic materials by taking into account surface tension, elastic deformation and viscous dissipation.