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Dar F, Cohen SR, Mitrea DM, Phillips AH, Nagy G, Leite WC, Stanley CB, Choi JM, Kriwacki RW, Pappu RV. Biomolecular condensates form spatially inhomogeneous network fluids. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3413. [PMID: 38649740 PMCID: PMC11035652 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47602-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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The functions of biomolecular condensates are thought to be influenced by their material properties, and these will be determined by the internal organization of molecules within condensates. However, structural characterizations of condensates are challenging, and rarely reported. Here, we deploy a combination of small angle neutron scattering, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to provide structural descriptions of model condensates that are formed by macromolecules from nucleolar granular components (GCs). We show that these minimal facsimiles of GCs form condensates that are network fluids featuring spatial inhomogeneities across different length scales that reflect the contributions of distinct protein and peptide domains. The network-like inhomogeneous organization is characterized by a coexistence of liquid- and gas-like macromolecular densities that engenders bimodality of internal molecular dynamics. These insights suggest that condensates formed by multivalent proteins share features with network fluids formed by systems such as patchy or hairy colloids.
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- Furqan Dar
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Biomolecular Condensates, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Biomolecular Condensates, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
- Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Dewpoint Therapeutics Inc., 451 D Street, Boston, MA, 02210, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Biomolecular Condensates, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA.
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Lysenkov E, Klepko V, Bulavin L, Lebovka N. Physico-Chemical Properties of Laponite®/Polyethylene-oxide Based Composites. CHEM REC 2024; 24:e202300166. [PMID: 37387571 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202300166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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This review aims to provide a literature overview as well as the authors' personal account to the studies of Laponite® (Lap)/Polyethylene-oxide (PEO) based composite materials and their applications. These composites can be prepared over a wide range of their mutual concentrations, they are highly water soluble, and have many useful physico-chemical properties. To the readers' convenience, the contents are subdivided into different sections, related with consideration of PEO properties and its solubility in water, behavior of Lap systems(structure of Lap-platelets, properties of aqueous dispersions of Lap and aging effects in them), analyzing ofproperties LAP/PEO systems, Lap platelets-PEO interactions, adsorption mechanisms, aging effects, aggregation and electrokinetic properties. The different applications of Lap/PEO composites are reviewed. These applications include Lap/PEO based electrolytes for lithium polymer batteries, electrospun nanofibers, environmental, biomedical and biotechnology engineering. Both Lap and PEO are highly biocompatible with living systems and they are non-toxic, non-yellowing, and non-inflammable. Medical applications of Lap/PEO composites in bio-sensing, tissue engineering, drug delivery, cell proliferation, and wound dressings are also discussed.
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- Eduard Lysenkov
- Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry named after F. D. Ovcharenko, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Jiao Y, Zeng C, Luo Y. Roughness induced current reversal in fractional hydrodynamic memory. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2023; 33:093140. [PMID: 37748483 DOI: 10.1063/5.0164625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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The existence of a corrugated surface is of great importance and ubiquity in biological systems, exhibiting diverse dynamic behaviors. However, it has remained unclear whether such rough surface leads to the current reversal in fractional hydrodynamic memory. We investigate the transport of a particle within a rough potential under external forces in a subdiffusive media with fractional hydrodynamic memory. The results demonstrate that roughness induces current reversal and a transition from no transport to transport. These phenomena are analyzed through the subdiffusion, Peclet number, useful work, input power, and thermodynamic efficiency. The analysis reveals that transport results from energy conversion, wherein time-dependent periodic force is partially converted into mechanical energy to drive transport against load, and partially dissipated through environmental absorption. In addition, the findings indicate that the size and shape of ratchet tune the occurrence and disappearance of the current reversal, and control the number of times of the current reversal occurring. Furthermore, we find that temperature, friction, and load tune transport, resonant-like activity, and enhanced stability of the system, as evidenced by thermodynamic efficiency. These findings may have implications for understanding dynamics in biological systems and may be relevant for applications involving molecular devices for particle separation at the mesoscopic scale.
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- Yuanyuan Jiao
- Faculty of Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- School of Physics and Information Engineering, Zhaotong University, Zhaotong 657000, China
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Shen J, Bhatia SR. Dynamics and microrheology of colloidal clay-polymer glasses and gels: Size-dependent phenomena and re-entrant behavior at early aging times. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:054904. [PMID: 36754815 DOI: 10.1063/5.0130816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Colloidal clay Laponite forms a variety of arrested states that display interesting aging behavior. Microrheology has been applied to Laponite-based glasses and gels, but few studies evaluate the influence of probe particle size. In this work, we report the dynamics and microrheology of Laponite-polymer dispersions during aging using passive microrheology with three different probe particle sizes. At early aging times, the neat Laponite dispersion forms an arrested state; the nature of this state (e.g., a repulsive glass or gel) has remained the subject of debate. The addition of polymer retards gelation and melts the arrested state. While this melting has been observed at the macroscale and has been attributed to a re-entrant transition of a repulsive glass to a liquid state, to our knowledge, it has not been observed at the microscale. The delay of the gelation time needed to form an arrested state was found to depend on the polymer concentration and could vary from ∼24 h for neat Laponite to seven days for some Laponite-polymer samples. Significant effects of probe particle sizes are observed from the mean-squared displacement (MSD) curves as small and intermediate probe particles show diffusive motion, while the motion of large particles is restricted. By examining the factor of ⟨Δr2 (τ)⟩a, structural heterogeneity can be confirmed through the strong size-dependence displayed. Different MSD trends of probe particles are obtained at longer aging times, but no significant changes occur after 30 days of aging. Our microrheology results also reveal significant effects of probe particle size.
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- Jiachun Shen
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
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Xu P, Yazici AF, Erdem T, Lekkerkerker HNW, Mutlugun E, Eiser E. Osmotic-Pressure-Induced Nematic Ordering in Suspensions of Laponite and Carboxy Methyl Cellulose. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:9475-9481. [PMID: 33043670 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c06674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Laponite is a synthetic clay that is known to form gels in aqueous suspensions at low concentrations (0.01 g/cm3). Although it is expected to form lyotropic liquid crystals, such phases usually do not form, as a consequence of laponite's tendency to form gels at concentrations below the threshold for liquid crystal formation. Here we show that macroscopic, birefringent phases of laponite can be prepared through osmotic compression of a laponite solution by an aqueous solution of carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC). We present polarization imaging studies showing how the initially dilute, isotropic laponite phase shrinks while developing typical birefringence colors between crossed polarizers. Using the Michel-Lévy interference charts, we were able to extract the refractive index and orientation of the laponite nanodisks in the compressed region. Our observations allow us to propose a tentative state diagram, indicating the concentration regions for which we obtain optically anisotropic gels.
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- Peicheng Xu
- University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- Abdullah Gül University, Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Engineering, Erkilet Bul., Kayseri 38080, Turkey
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- Abdullah Gül University, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Erkilet Bul., Kayseri 38080, Turkey
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- Van't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Abdullah Gül University, Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Erkilet Bul., Kayseri 38080, Turkey
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- University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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Roullet M, Clegg PS, Frith WJ. Rheology of protein-stabilised emulsion gels envisioned as composite networks 1- Comparison of pure droplet gels and protein gels. J Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 579:878-887. [PMID: 32679385 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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HYPOTHESIS Protein-stabilised emulsion gels can be studied in the theoretical framework of colloidal gels, because both protein assemblies and droplets may be considered as soft colloids. These particles differ in their nature, size and softness, and these differences may have an influence on the rheological properties of the gels they form. EXPERIMENTS Pure gels made of milk proteins (sodium caseinate), or of sub-micron protein-stabilised droplets, were prepared by slow acidification of suspensions at various concentrations. Their microstructure was characterised, their viscoelasticity, both in the linear and non-linear regime, and their frequency dependence were measured, and the behaviour of the two types of gels was compared. FINDINGS Protein gels and droplet gels were found to have broadly similar microstructure and rheological properties when compared at fixed volume fraction, a parameter derived from the study of the viscosity of the suspensions formed by proteins and by droplets. The viscoelasticity displayed a power law behaviour in concentration, as did the storage modulus in frequency. Additionally, strain hardening was found to occur at low concentration. These behaviours differed slightly between protein gels and droplet gels, showing that some specific properties of the primary colloidal particles play a role in the development of the rheological properties of the gels.
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- Marion Roullet
- Unilever R&D Colworth, Sharnbrook, Bedford MK44 1LQ, UK; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.
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Dhume RY, Barocas VH. Emergent structure-dependent relaxation spectra in viscoelastic fiber networks in extension. Acta Biomater 2019; 87:245-255. [PMID: 30682422 PMCID: PMC6467080 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Revised: 01/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Viscoelasticity plays an important role in the mechanical behavior of biological tissues undergoing dynamic loading. Exploring viscoelastic relaxation spectra of the tissue is essential for predicting its mechanical response. Most load-bearing tissues, however, are also composed of networks of intertwined fibers and filaments of, e.g., collagen, elastin. In this work, we show how non-affine deformations within fiber networks affect the relaxation behavior of the material leading to the emergence of structure-dependent time scales in the relaxation spectra. In particular, we see two different contributions to the network relaxation process: a material contribution due to the intrinsic viscoelasticity of the fibers, and a kinematic contribution due to non-affine rearrangement of the network when different fibers relax at different rates. We also present a computational model to simulate viscoelastic relaxation of networks, demonstrating the emergent time scales and a pronounced dependence of the network relaxation behavior on whether components with different relaxation times percolate the network. Finally, we observe that the simulated relaxation spectrum for Delaunay networks is comparable to that measured experimentally for reconstituted collagen gels by others. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Viscoelasticty plays an important role in the mechanical behavior of biological tissues undergoing dynamic loading. Stress relaxation tests provide a convenient way to explore the viscoelastic behavior of the material, while providing an advantage of interrogating multiple time scales in a single experiment. Most load bearing tissues, however, are composed of networks of intertwined fibers and filaments. In the present study, we analyze how the network structure can affect the viscoelastic relaxation behavior of a tissue leading to the emergence of structure-based time scales in the relaxation spectra.
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- Rohit Y Dhume
- 111 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
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Suman K, Joshi YM. Microstructure and Soft Glassy Dynamics of an Aqueous Laponite Dispersion. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2018; 34:13079-13103. [PMID: 30180583 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Synthetic hectorite clay Laponite RD/XLG is composed of disk-shaped nanoparticles that acquire dissimilar charges when suspended in an aqueous medium. Owing to their property to spontaneously self-assemble, Laponite is used as a rheology modifier in a variety of commercial water-based products. In particular, an aqueous dispersion of Laponite undergoes a liquid-to-solid transition at about 1 vol % concentration. The evolution of the physical properties as the dispersion transforms to the solid state is reminiscent of physical aging in molecular as well as colloidal glasses. The corresponding soft glassy dynamics of an aqueous Laponite dispersion, including the rheological behavior, has been extensively studied in the literature. In this feature article, we take an overview of recent advances in understanding soft glassy dynamics and various efforts taken to understand the peculiar rheological behavior. Furthermore, the continuously developing microstructure that is responsible for the eventual formation of a soft solid state that supports its own weight against gravity has also been a topic of intense debate and discussion. In particularly, extensive experimental and theoretical studies lead to two types of microstructures for this system: an attractive gel-like or a repulsive glass-like structure. We carefully examine and critically analyze the literature and propose a state (phase) diagram that suggests an aqueous Laponite dispersion to be present in an attractive gel state.
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- Khushboo Suman
- Department of Chemical Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , India
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Jatav S, Joshi YM. Phase Behavior of Aqueous Suspension of Laponite: New Insights with Microscopic Evidence. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:2370-2377. [PMID: 28209059 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Investigating microstructure of suspensions with particles having anisotropic shape that share complex interactions is a challenging task leading to competing claims. This work investigates phase behavior of one such system: aqueous Laponite suspension, which is highly contested in the literature, using rheological and microscopic tools. Remarkably, we observe that over a broad range of Laponite (1.4 to 4 wt %) and salt concentrations (0 to 7 mM), the system overwhelmingly demonstrates all the rheological characteristics of the sol-gel transition leading to a percolated network. Analysis of the rheological response leads to fractal dimension that primarily depends on the Laponite concentration. We also obtain the activation energy for gelation, which is observed to decrease with increase in Laponite as well as salt concentration. Significantly, the cryo-TEM images of the postgel state clearly show the presence of a percolated network formed by interparticle bonds. The present work therefore conclusively establishes the system to be in an attractive gel state resolving a long-standing debate in the literature.
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- Shweta Jatav
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology , Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology , Kanpur 208016, India
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Au PI, Hassan S, Liu J, Leong YK. Behaviour of LAPONITE® gels: Rheology, ageing, pH effect and phase state in the presence of dispersant. Chem Eng Res Des 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2015.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Glass-glass transition during aging of a colloidal clay. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4049. [PMID: 24887086 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Colloidal suspensions are characterized by a variety of microscopic interactions, which generate unconventional phase diagrams encompassing fluid, gel and glassy states and offer the possibility to study new phase and/or state transitions. Among these, glass-glass transitions are rare to be found, especially at ambient conditions. Here, through a combination of dilution experiments, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, small angle X-ray scattering, rheological measurements and Monte Carlo simulations, we provide evidence of a spontaneous glass-glass transition in a colloidal clay. Two different glassy states are distinguished with evolving waiting time: a first one, dominated by long-range screened Coulombic repulsion (Wigner glass) and a second one, stabilized by orientational attractions (Disconnected House of Cards glass), occurring after a much longer time. These findings may have implications for heterogeneously charged systems out-of-equilibrium and for applications where a fine control of the local order and/or long term stability of the amorphous materials are required.
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Majumdar S, Sood AK. Statistical properties of entropy-consuming fluctuations in jammed states of laponite suspensions: Fluctuation relations and generalized Gumbel distribution. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:041404. [PMID: 22680472 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.041404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2011] [Revised: 12/04/2011] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We report a universal large deviation behavior of spatially averaged global injected power just before the rejuvenation of the jammed state formed by an aging suspension of laponite clay under an applied stress. The probability distribution function (PDF) of these entropy consuming strongly non-Gaussian fluctuations follow an universal large deviation functional form described by the generalized Gumbel (GG) distribution like many other equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems with high degree of correlations but do not obey the Gallavotti-Cohen steady-state fluctuation relation (SSFR). However, far from the unjamming transition (for smaller applied stresses) SSFR is satisfied for both Gaussian as well as non-Gaussian PDF. The observed slow variation of the mean shear rate with system size supports a recent theoretical prediction for observing GG distribution.
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- Sayantan Majumdar
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Goychuk I. Viscoelastic Subdiffusion: Generalized Langevin Equation Approach. ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/9781118197714.ch5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Guéna G, Wang J, d'Espinose JB, Lequeux F, Talini L. Boiling of an emulsion in a yield stress fluid. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 82:051502. [PMID: 21230481 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.051502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We report the boiling behavior of pentane emulsified in a yield stress fluid, a colloidal clay (Laponite) suspension. We have observed that a superheated state is easily reached: the emulsion, heated more than 50 °C above the alkane boiling point, does not boil. Superheating is made possible by the suppression of heterogeneous nucleation in pentane, resulting from the emulsification process, a phenomenon evidenced decades ago in studies of the superheating of two phase fluids. We have furthermore studied the growth of isolated bubbles nucleated in the emulsion. The rate of increase of the bubble radius with time depends on both the temperature and emulsion volume fraction but, rather unexpectedly, does not depend on the fluid rheology. We show that the bubbles grow by diffusion of the alkane through the aqueous phase between liquid droplets and bubbles, analogously to an Ostwald ripening process. The peculiarity of the process reported here is that a layer depleted in oil droplets forms around the bubble, layer to which the alkane concentration gradient is confined. We successfully describe our experimental results with a simple transfer model.
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- Geoffroy Guéna
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR CNRS 7615, Laboratoire PPMD, ESPCI, F-75005 Paris, France
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Negi AS, Osuji CO. Time-resolved viscoelastic properties during structural arrest and aging of a colloidal glass. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 82:031404. [PMID: 21230074 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.031404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2010] [Revised: 08/20/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Evolution of the energy landscape during physical aging of glassy materials can be understood from the frequency and strain dependence of the shear modulus but the nonstationary nature of these systems frustrates investigation of their instantaneous underlying properties. Using a series of time-dependent measurements we systematically reconstruct the frequency and strain dependence as a function of age for a repulsive colloidal glass undergoing structural arrest. In this manner, we are able to unambiguously observe the structural relaxation time, which increases exponentially with sample age at short times. The yield stress varies logarithmically with time in the arrested state, consistent with recent simulation results, whereas the yield strain is nearly constant in this regime. Strikingly, the frequency dependence at fixed times can be rescaled onto a master curve, implying a simple connection between the aging of the system and the change in the frequency dependent modulus.
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- Ajay Singh Negi
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
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Kandar AK, Bhattacharya R, Basu JK. Communication: Evidence of dynamic heterogeneity in glassy polymer monolayers from interface microrheology measurements. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:071102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3471584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Roth M, D’Acunzi M, Vollmer D, Auernhammer GK. Viscoelastic rheology of colloid-liquid crystal composites. J Chem Phys 2010; 132:124702. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3358331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Jabbari-Farouji S, Tanaka H, Wegdam GH, Bonn D. Multiple nonergodic disordered states in Laponite suspensions: a phase diagram. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2008; 78:061405. [PMID: 19256839 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.78.061405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2008] [Revised: 09/22/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We study the time evolution of different Laponite suspensions from a low-viscosity ergodic state to a viscoelastic nonergodic state over a wide range of volume fractions and salt contents. We find that the evolution of nonergodicity parameter (Debye-Waller factor) splits into two branches for all the samples, which correspond to two distinct dynamically arrested states. At moderately high salt concentrations, on the other hand, a third nonergodic state appears that is different from the above two nonergodic states. Measurement of the conductivity of Laponite solutions in pure water shows that the contribution of counterions in the ionic strength is considerable and their role should be taken into account in interpretations of aging dynamics and the phase diagram. Based on these data and available data in the literature, we propose a (nonequilibrium) phase diagram for Laponite suspensions.
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- S Jabbari-Farouji
- Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, 1018XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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