Soft materials are materials that can be easily deformed by thermal stresses or thermal fluctuations at about room temperature. Soft materials include liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids ...

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Even though scientists and engineers have learned how to use some of the unique properties of soft materials only recently, their properties have always been of pivoit importance in nature. For ...