Depletion gels from dense soft colloids: Rheology and thermoreversible melting

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1441-1462

  Truzzolillo, Domenico ^a   Vlassopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Munam, Abdul ^b   Gauthier, Mario ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATION; GELS; GLASS; MELTING; OSMOSIS; SPHERES;

COLLOIDAL GELATION; CORRELATION LENGTHS; GENERIC FEATURES; INTERNAL MICROSTRUCTURE; LINEAR HOMOPOLYMERS; SOFT COMPOSITE MATERIALS; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; YIELDING PROCESS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84906838528     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: 15208516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.4866592     Document Type: Article

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