| Literature DB >> 16893207 |
E R Dufresne1, D J Stark, N A Greenblatt, J X Cheng, J W Hutchinson, L Mahadevan, D A Weitz.
Abstract
We investigate the dynamics of fracture in drying films of colloidal silica. Water loss quenches the nanoparticle dispersions to form a liquid-saturated elastic network of particles that relieves drying-induced strain by cracking. These cracks display intriguing intermittent motion originating from the deformation of arrested crack tips and aging of the elastic network. The dynamics of a single crack exhibits a universal evolution, described by a balance of the driving elastic power with the sum of interfacial power and the viscous dissipation rate of flowing interstitial fluid.Entities:
Year: 2006 PMID: 16893207 DOI: 10.1021/la061251+
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Langmuir ISSN: 0743-7463 Impact factor: 3.882