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A remarkable property of cellulose-based materials is that they can absorb huge amounts of water (25% of the dry mass) from ambient vapor, in the form of bound water confined at a nanoscale in the amorphous regions of the cellulose structure. The control of the dynamics of sorption and desorption of bound water is a […]

Coarsening is a ubiquitous phenomenon in phase separations. It is widely observed in alloys, polymers, emulsions, foams, and even in biological systems. However, coarsening of materials where the two phases have comparable volume fractions is still poorly understood. To fill this gap, we performed coarsening experiments on aqueous foams in microgravity—free from gravity-driven destabilization. We […]