Elastically driven intermittent microscopic dynamics in soft solids

Mehdi Bouzid; Jader Colombo; Lucas Vieira Barbosa; Emanuela Del Gado

doi:10.1038/ncomms15846

Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Elastically driven intermittent microscopic dynamics in soft solids

Mehdi Bouzid,
Jader Colombo,
Lucas Vieira Barbosa,
Emanuela Del Gado

Affiliations

Mehdi Bouzid: Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University
Jader Colombo: Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University
Lucas Vieira Barbosa: Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University
Emanuela Del Gado: Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15846
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Soft solids have important applications in industry but their material properties can be compromised by aging. Here Bouzidet al. present a large-scale study of a model gel to investigate the aging of soft matter which can help unravel the microscopic dynamics in a range of soft solids.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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