Concepts and conflicts in nanoparticles reinforcement to polymers beyond hydrodynamics

Y Song, Q Zheng - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
With substantial progresses in reinforcement mechanism of nanoparticle filled polymers
(NPFPs) beyond the hydrodynamic limit, now is the time to reconsider this topic …

Hard x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy methods for materials studies

AR Sandy, Q Zhang, LB Lurio - Annual Review of Materials …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and designing sophisticated new materials require measurements of not
only their average structural properties but also their dynamic behavior. X-ray photon …

The hidden hierarchical nature of soft particulate gels

M Bantawa, B Keshavarz, M Geri, M Bouzid, T Divoux… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Soft particulate gels are composed of a small amount of particulate matter dispersed in a
continuous fluid phase. The solid components assemble to form a porous matrix, providing …

Colloidal gel elasticity arises from the packing of locally glassy clusters

KA Whitaker, Z Varga, LC Hsiao, MJ Solomon… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Colloidal gels formed by arrested phase separation are found widely in agriculture,
biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing; yet, the emergence of elasticity and the nature …

Structure and dynamics of colloidal depletion gels: Coincidence of transitions and heterogeneity

CJ Dibble, M Kogan, MJ Solomon - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2006 - APS
Transitions in structural heterogeneity of colloidal depletion gels formed through short-range
attractive interactions are correlated with their dynamical arrest. The system is a density and …

[HTML][HTML] The Asakura–Oosawa theory: Entropic forces in physics, biology, and soft matter

K Miyazaki, KS Schweizer, D Thirumalai… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In 1954, Asakura and Oosawa 1 explained that nonadsorbing macromolecules can induce
attractive forces between colloidal particles in a single page paper in this journal. The …

Derivation of a microscopic theory of barriers and activated hopping transport in glassy liquids and suspensions

KS Schweizer - The Journal of chemical physics, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
A recently proposed microscopic activated barrier hopping theory [KS Schweizer and EJ
Saltzman, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 1181 (2003)] of slow single-particle dynamics in glassy …

Elasticity of Arrested Short-Ranged Attractive Colloids:<? format?> Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Glasses

A Zaccone, H Wu, E Del Gado - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We evaluate the elasticity of arrested short-ranged attractive colloids by combining an
analytically solvable elastic model with a hierarchical arrest scheme. This new approach …

Strain softening, yielding, and shear thinning in glassy colloidal suspensions

V Kobelev, KS Schweizer - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2005 - APS
A microscopic theory for the dependence on external strain, stress, and shear rate of the
transient localization length, elastic modulus, alpha relaxation time, shear viscosity, and …

Rheological signatures of gel–glass transition and a revised phase diagram of an aqueous triblock copolymer solution of Pluronic F127

K Suman, S Sourav, YM Joshi - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we study temperature-induced state change of an aqueous solution of triblock
copolymer composed of poly (ethylene oxide)-poly (propylene oxide)-poly (ethylene oxide) …