Ageing and yield behaviour in model soft colloidal glasses

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1909, 2009, Pages 5051-5071

  Christopoulou, C ^a,b   Petekidis, G ^a,b   Erwin, B ^a,c,d   Cloitre, M ^c   Vlassopoulos, D ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Creep rheology; Soft colloids; Yielding

Indexed keywords

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; COMPLEXATION; CREEP; ELASTICITY; ENDOCRINOLOGY; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

AGEING; COLLOIDAL GLASS; COMPLEX RESPONSE; CREEP AND RECOVERY; CREEP CURVES; ELASTIC SOLIDS; GLASSY SAMPLES; GLASSY STATE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; HOOKEAN SOLIDS; LOW STRESS; RECOVERABLE STRAIN; RHEOLOGICAL STUDIES; SOFT COLLOIDS; SOFT GLASS; STAR POLYMERS; STRESS-DEPENDENT; VISCOELASTIC LIQUID; VISCOPLASTIC; WAITING-TIME; YIELD BEHAVIOUR; YIELD VALUE;

GLASS;

EID: 73249140527     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0166     Document Type: Article

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