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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2001

Ultraslow dynamics and stress relaxation in the aging of a soft glassy system

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We use linear rheology and multispeckle dynamic light scattering (MDLS) to investigate the aging of a gel composed of multilamellar vesicles. Light scattering data indicate rearrangement of the gel through an unusual ultraslow ballistic motion. A dramatic slowdown of the dynamics with sample age $t_{w}$ is observed for both rheology and MDLS, the characteristic relaxation time scaling as $t_{w}^{\mu}$. We find the same aging exponent $\mu =0.78$ for both techniques, suggesting that they probe similar physical processes, that is the relaxation of applied or internal stresses for rheology or MDLS, respectively. A simple phenomenological model is developed to account for the observed dynamics.

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hal-00122195 , version 1 (28-12-2006)

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Laurence Ramos, Luca Cipelletti. Ultraslow dynamics and stress relaxation in the aging of a soft glassy system. Physical Review Letters, 2001, 87, pp.245503. ⟨hal-00122195⟩
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