https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2017-70076-0
Review
One- and two-component colloidal glasses under transient shear
1 Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Heinrich Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
2 División de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad de Guanajuato, 37150 León, Mexico
a Present address: AMOLF Institute, Biological Soft Matter group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
b e-mail: stefan.egelhaaf@uni-duesseldorf.de
Received: 8 April 2017
Revised: 27 May 2017
Published online: 10 August 2017
In concentrated colloidal mixtures different caging mechanisms exist and result in different arrested states: repulsive, attractive and asymmetric glasses as well as gel-like states. We discuss their microscopic structure, dynamics and rheological response. Special attention is given to the non-linear mechanical behaviour, in particular the transient rheological response after shear is started. Steps in both, shear rate and shear stress (creep test), are considered. The macroscopic viscoelastic response is related to the microscopic structure and dynamics on the individual-particle level.
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