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POLYMERS
卷 13, 期 21, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13213618
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physical gels; alginate; elastic heterogeneity; dynamic heterogeneity
Research suggests that anomalous aging in soft glassy materials is closely related to ultra-long-range dynamical correlations, which may be a common feature.
Anomalous aging in soft glassy materials has generated a great deal of interest because of some intriguing features of the underlying relaxation process, including the emergence of ultra-long-range dynamical correlations. An intriguing possibility is that such a huge correlation length is reflected in detectable ensemble fluctuations of the macroscopic material properties. We tackle this issue by performing replicated mechanical and dynamic light scattering (DLS) experiments on alginate gels, which recently emerged as a good model-system of anomalous aging. Here we show that some of the monitored quantities display wide variability, including large fluctuations in the stress relaxation and the occasional presence of two-step decay in the DLS decorrelation functions. By quantifying elastic fluctuation through the standard deviation of the elastic modulus and dynamic heterogeneities through the dynamic susceptibility, we find that both quantities do increase with the gel age over a comparable range. Our results suggest that large elastic fluctuations are closely related to ultra-long-range dynamical correlation, and therefore may be a general feature of anomalous aging in gels.
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