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Water-dependent micromechanical and rheological properties of silica colloidal crystals studied by nanoindentation.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Gallego-Gómez, Francisco Morales-Flórez, Víctor Blanco, Álvaro Rosa-Fox, Nicolás De La López, Cefe |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Here we show the suitability of nanoindentation to study in detail the micromechanical response of silica colloidal crystals (CCs). The sensitivity to displacements smaller than the submicrometer spheres size, even resolving discrete events and superficial features, revealed particulate features with analogies to atomic crystals. Significant robustness, long-range structural deformation, and large energy dissipation were found. Easily implemented temperature/rate-dependent nanoindentation quantified the paramount role of adsorbed water endowing silica CCs with properties of wet granular materials like viscoplasticity. A novel "nongranular" CC was fabricated by substituting capillary bridges with silica necks to directly test water-independent mechanical response. Silica CCs, as specific (nanometric, ordered) wet granular assemblies with well-defined configuration, may be useful model systems for granular science and capillary cohesion at the nanoscale. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1021/nl3024998 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://luxrerum.icmm.csic.es/pdfs/Articles/Gallego_Water-depndent%20micromechanical.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 22871185 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1021/nl3024998 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Issue Number | 9 |
| Journal | Nano letters |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
