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Studying Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Response of Soft Materials
Published on: April 25, 2019
Dynamical Heterogeneity near Glass Transition Temperature under Shear Conditions
Taiki Hoshino1, So Fujinami1, Tomotaka Nakatani1
1RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan.
Abstract:
We experimentally studied the shear effect on dynamical heterogeneity near glass transition temperature. X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy was utilized to study the dynamics of polyvinyl acetate with tracer particles near its glass transition temperature, to determine the local shear rate from the anisotropic behavior of the time autocorrelation function and to calculate the dynamical heterogeneity using higher-order correlation function. The obtained results show a decrease in the dynamical heterogeneity and faster dynamics with increasing shear rate. This is the first experimental result that proved the predictions of previous molecular dynamics simulations.
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