Scaling of the viscoelasticity of weakly attractive particles

Citation:

Trappe, V. ; Weitz, D. A. Scaling of the viscoelasticity of weakly attractive particles. Physical Review Letters 2000, 85, 449. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y5qhtkbd
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Abstract:

The rheological data of weakly attractive colloidal particles are shown to exhibit a surprising scaling behavior as the particle volume fraction, phi, or the strength of the attractive interparticle interaction, U, are varied. There is a critical onset of a solid network as either phi or U increase above critical values. For all solidlike samples, both the frequency-dependent linear viscoelastic moduli, and the strain-rate dependent stress can be scaled onto universal master curves. A model of a solid network interspersed in a background fluid qualitatively accounts for this behavior.

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