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Opportunities for Soft Matter Research in Space

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Opportunities for Soft Matter Research in Space

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  • Author: Sujit S. Datta
Soft materials—materials that can be deformed and restructured by thermal or mechanical stresses at room temperature—are ubiquitous in our everyday lives. The milk we drink in the morning (a colloidal dispersion), the gel we put in our hair (a polymer mixture), and the plaque that we try to scrub off our teeth (a bacterial biofilm) are all familiar examples. Because they are so easily deformed, such materials—which include liquids and liquid mixtures, colloidal dispersions, polymer solutions and gels, foams, liquid crystals, granular materials, many biological materials, and even many active and living materials—typically have disordered microstructures and highly non-linear responses to external stimuli.

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