Slip and flow of hard-sphere colloidal glasses

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2008-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/0807.1437v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.258301

We study the flow of concentrated hard-sphere colloidal suspensions along smooth, non-stick walls using cone-plate rheometry and simultaneous confocal microscopy. In the glass regime, the global flow shows a transition from Herschel-Bulkley behavior at large shear rate to a characteristic Bingham slip response at small rates, absent for ergodic colloidal fluids. Imaging reveals both the `solid' microstructure during full slip and the local nature of the `slip to shear' transition. Both the local and global flow are described by a phenomenological model, and the associated Bingham slip parameters exhibit characteristic scaling with size and concentration of the hard spheres.

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