Origin of the Slow Dynamics and the Aging of a Soft Glass Export

@article{citeulike:984682, abstract = {We study by light microscopy a soft glass consisting of a compact arrangement of polydisperse multilamellar vesicles. We show that its slow and nonstationary dynamics results from the unavoidable small fluctuations of temperature, which induce intermittent local shear deformations in the sample, because of thermal expansion and contraction. Temperature-induced shear provokes both reversible and irreversible rearrangements whose amplitude decreases with time, leading to an exponential slowing down of the dynamics with sample age.}, author = {Mazoyer, Sylvain and Cipelletti, Luca and Ramos, Laurence}, citeulike-article-id = {984682}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRLTAO000097000023238301000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v97/e238301}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.238301}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.238301}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, keywords = {aging, glass}, number = {23}, posted-at = {2006-12-08 19:14:30}, priority = {2}, publisher = {APS}, title = {Origin of the Slow Dynamics and the Aging of a Soft Glass}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.238301}, volume = {97}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:984682 L3 - citeulike-article-id:984682 N2 - We study by light microscopy a soft glass consisting of a compact arrangement of polydisperse multilamellar vesicles. We show that its slow and nonstationary dynamics results from the unavoidable small fluctuations of temperature, which induce intermittent local shear deformations in the sample, because of thermal expansion and contraction. Temperature-induced shear provokes both reversible and irreversible rearrangements whose amplitude decreases with time, leading to an exponential slowing down of the dynamics with sample age. IS - 23 JF - Physical Review Letters TI - Origin of the Slow Dynamics and the Aging of a Soft Glass PB - APS VL - 97 KW - aging KW - glass AU - Mazoyer, Sylvain AU - Cipelletti, Luca AU - Ramos, Laurence PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.238301 ER -