Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2002-10-29
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
9 pages 10 figures to appear in Faraday Discussion 123
Scientific paper
We present here a microscopic study of the effect of shear on a dense purely repulsive colloidal suspension. We use Multispeckle Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy to monitor the transient motions of colloidal particles after being submitted to an oscillatory strain. This technique proves efficient to record the time evolution of the relaxation times distribution. After a high oscillatory shear, we show that this distribution displays a full aging behavior. Oppositely, when a moderate shear is applied the distribution is modified in a non trivial way. Whereas high shear is able to erase all the sample history and rejuvenate it, a moderate shear helps it to age. We call this phenomena overaging. We demonstrate that overaging can be understood if the complete shape of the relaxation time distribution is taken into account. We finally report how the Soft Glassy Rheology model accounts for this effect.
Jurine S.
Lequeux François
Viasnoff Virgile
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