title: Strain-accelerated dynamics of soft colloidal glasses.
abstract: We have investigated strain-accelerated dynamics of soft glasses theoretically and experimentally. Mechanical rheology measurements performed on a variety of systems reveal evidence for the speeding-up of relaxation at modest shear strains in both step and oscillatory shear flows. Using the soft glassy rheology (SGR) model framework, we show that the observed behavior is a fundamental, but heretofore unexplored attribute of soft glasses.
authors: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA.
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