Slow, non-diffusive dynamics in concentrated nanoemulsions

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2007-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701540v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

Using multispeckle x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we have measured the slow, wave-vector dependent dynamics of concentrated, disordered nanoemulsions composed of silicone oil droplets in water. The intermediate scattering function possesses a compressed exponential lineshape and a relaxation time that varies inversely with wave vector. We interpret these dynamics as strain in response to local stress relaxation. The motion includes a transient component whose characteristic velocity decays exponentially with time following a mechanical perturbation of the nanoemulsions and a second component whose characteristic velocity is essentially independent of time. The steady-state characteristic velocity is surprisingly insensitive to droplet volume fraction in the concentrated regime, indicating that the strain motion is only weakly dependent on the droplet-droplet interactions.

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