{"id":83194,"date":"2026-01-19T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=83194"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:10:58","slug":"soft-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/soft-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Soft Matter Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every morning, as you use either your toothpaste or shampoo, you engage with soft matter, materials that flow like liquids under force but hold their shape at rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Soft Matter<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soft matter, or soft materials, is a <\/span><b>sub-field of \u201ccondensed matter\u201d,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> referring to a variety of <\/span><b>materials that can be easily deformed or structurally altered by thermal fluctuations or nominal external stress.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soft materials <\/span><b>include colloids, polymers, foams, gels, liquid crystals, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and many <\/span><b>biomaterials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They exhibit many useful and appealing properties, which account for their ubiquity in everyday life, finding use in a diverse range of <\/span><b>applications in industry including, food, medical, automotive, construction,<\/b> <b>transportation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><b> electronics, and manufacturing.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Everyday examples<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> include <\/span><b>curd, toothpaste, shampoo, soap bubbles, and living cells.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the important characteristics of soft matter is their physical structures in the mesoscopic scale.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the properties and interactions of these structures that determine the overall behavior of the material.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike \u201chard materials\u201d such as metals, ceramics, or glass, the<\/span><b> building blocks <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of soft matter are <\/span><b>held together by weak forces.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>As a result, soft <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">material properties can be<\/span><b> markedly affected as a result of small changes in temperature, applied force, time, and environment.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/166785\/OPS\/G04FF408S.1+G0QFF5978.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft Matter refers to a variety of materials that can be easily deformed or structurally altered by thermal fluctuations or nominal external stress. 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