Summary
This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award will advance the fundamental understanding of how soft elastic materials behave when they contain an internal fluid that can move, reorganize, and separate into distinct phases within the solid network. Fluid-saturated soft solids arise in a wide range of engineered and natural systems, including hydrogels, solid–liquid composites, biological tissues, and geological media. When these materials are subjected to mechanical loading, the embedded fluid can redistribute, interact with the surrounding elastic matrix, and in some cases unde
