DOI: 10.1039/d6sm00363j ISSN: 1744-683X
Nonequilibrium glass-melting mechanism for two step yielding in step-rate shear and post-cessation re-equilibration dynamics in Brownian attractive glasses and dense gels
Anoop Mutneja, Kenneth S. SchweizerMicroscopic nonequilibrium statistical-mechanical theory is developed for dense, short-range attractive Brownian colloids under step-rate shear and subsequent shear cessation, predicting double yielding and two-step re-equilibration dynamics.