Soft matter
Solids are fixed, and liquids flow, but what about everything in between, like gels, foams, emulsions, biological material etc. Understanding microstructure of soft matter helps understanding macroscopic functioning, such as plasticity, fracturing, light dispersion, and product stability. Many types of microscopy are being used to characterise microstructure of soft matter, in addition to physical measurement methods such as rheometry, particle size distribution measurement and specific interactions with light and other types of radiation. Consistence is specialised to study internal structure, obtaining deep insight in size and shapes of material building blocks, even in delicate and metastable structures such as ice cream.
![Freeze-fracture cryo-SEM image of ice cream close to surface. Mars Ice Cream. Image width: 52 µm. Photo by Jaap Nijsse, www.Consistence.nl](https://consistence.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/jn200507_0035r-768x576.jpg)
![Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy (LM-DIC or Nomarski) image of Chrysanthemum cut flower pith tissue revealing cell wall pits at high contrast. Photo by Jaap Nijsse, Consistence Microstructure Research Laboratory.](https://consistence.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Differential-Interference-Contrast-Microscopy-Consistence-04-768x574.jpg)
![Consistence-soft-matter](https://consistence.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Consistence-soft-matter-768x576.jpg)
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