Yield stress "in a flash": investigation of nonlinearity and yielding in soft materials with an optofluidic microrheometer
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2021
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Yield stress "in a flash": investigation of nonlinearity and yielding in soft materials with an optofluidic microrheometer / V. Vitali, G. Nava, A. Corno, M. Pezzotti, F. Bragheri, P. Paiè, R. Osellame, M.A. Ortenzi, I. Cristiani, P. Minzioni, T. Bellini, G. Zanchetta. - In: SOFT MATTER. - ISSN 1744-683X. - 17:11(2021 Mar 21), pp. 3105-3112. [10.1039/D0SM02168G]
Abstract:
Yield stress materials deform as elastic solids or flow as viscous liquids, depending on the applied stress, which also allows them to trap particles below a certain size or density threshold. To investigate the conditions for such a transition at the microscale, we exploit an optofluidic microrheometer, based on the scattering of an infrared beam onto a microbead, which reaches forces in the nN scale. We perform creep experiments on a model soft material composed of swollen microgels, determining the limits of linear response and yield stress values, and we find quantitative agreement with bulk measurements. However, the motion of the microbead, both below and above yielding, reflects distinctive microscale features of the surrounding material, whose plastic rearrangements we investigate through small, passive tracers.
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01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
V. Vitali, G. Nava, A. Corno, M. Pezzotti, F. Bragheri, P. Paiè, R. Osellame, M.A. Ortenzi, I. Cristiani, P. Minzioni, T. Bellini, G. Zanchetta
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