Weak and strong gels and the emergence of the amorphous solid state

Gels

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Douglas, Jack F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Amorphous solidification; Andrade creep; Fractional differential equations; Jelly; Shear thinning; Softness; Stretched exponential relaxation; Strong gel; Weak gel

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050237047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23102861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/gels4010019     Document Type: Review

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