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Graph with bundling on y-axis and stickiness on x-axis, demonstrating four models of two-component fibrous colloidal gels. Models are 3-D blocks with red and blue squiggles of various density of packing.

Multi-component gels are an important frontier of materials design.

Using a computational model, we illustrate the variety of structural and rheological properties that emerge from changing the interactions between the components, which control their ability to associate (stick) and wrap around each other (bundle).

As described in our new pre-print, we propose rules that can aid the design of gel composites with desired properties.

Credit: Mauro Mugnai, Rose Tchuenkam, and Prof. Del Gado

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