{"id":223131,"date":"2025-10-09T03:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/research-shines-light-on-double-yielding-behavior-in-soft-materials"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:20:31","slug":"research-shines-light-on-double-yielding-behavior-in-soft-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/research-shines-light-on-double-yielding-behavior-in-soft-materials","title":{"rendered":"Research shines light on \u2018double-yielding\u2019 behavior in soft materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-shines-light-on-double-yielding-behavior-in-soft-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists have observed, but been unable to explain, a phenomenon seen in some soft materials: When force is applied, these materials exhibit not one, but two spikes in energy dissipation, known as overshoots. Because overshoots are generally thought to indicate the point at which a material yields, or transitions from solid-like to fluid-like behavior, the dual response was therefore assumed to indicate \u201cdouble yielding\u201d\u2014the idea that to fully fluidize a material, it needed to yield twice.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have shown that this behavior is different than previously hypothesized. Their paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/1qdd-6yby\" target=\"_blank\">Resolving Dual Processes in Complex Oscillatory Yielding<\/a>,\u201d is published in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Simon A. Rogers and his team, led by then-graduate student James J. Griebler show that the two-step response is the result of two independent processes: first, a softening of the material\u2019s elastic structure, and later, true yielding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, scientists have observed, but been unable to explain, a phenomenon seen in some soft materials: When force is applied, these materials exhibit not one, but two spikes in energy dissipation, known as overshoots. Because overshoots are generally thought to indicate the point at which a material yields, or transitions from solid-like to fluid-like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}