Paper Number
PO11 

Session
Poster Session

Title
The Soft Matter Kitchen: Improving the accessibility of rheology education and outreach through food materials

Presentation Date and Time
October 12, 2022 (Wednesday) 6:30

Track / Room
Poster Session / Riverwalk A

Authors (Click on name to view author profile)

  1. Avendano, Justin Andre L. (Stevens Institute of Technology, Schaefer School of Engineering and Science)
  2. Saud, Keara (University of Michigan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)
  3. Nelson, Arif Z. (Singapore Institute of Technology, Food Chemical and Biotechnology Cluster)

Author and Affiliation Lines (in printed abstract book)
Justin Andre L. Avendano1, Keara Saud2 and Arif Z. Nelson3
1Schaefer School of Engineering and Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 3Food Chemical and Biotechnology Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore 138683, Singapore

Speaker / Presenter 
Avendano, Justin Andre L.

Keywords
consumer products; food rheology; gels; glasses; suspensions

Text of Abstract
The Soft Matter Kitchen is an educational outreach project supported by the Society of Rheology’s Rheology Venture Fund that leverages food recipes and experiments that can be carried out at home to discuss concepts in soft matter and rheology. This poster showcases popular content developed by the Soft Matter Kitchen and new entries developed during an AIP Society of Physics Student Internship showing phenomena such as shear thickening and viscoelasticity. Food is one of the best ways to create a route for appreciating rheologically complex materials which anyone can understand. The presented demonstrations were developed in-part by drawing upon the unique background and culture of the intern. By grounding the presentation of this knowledge in food materials with which the audience likely already has experience, the goals of this project are to accelerate the understanding of rheological concepts, increase awareness of rheology in everyday life, and promote the development of intuition for rheologically complex materials in more diverse audiences.