Time-Dependent Strength of Colloidal Gels

S. Manley¹, Benny Davidovitch², Neil R. Davies¹, L. Cipelletti^1,*, A. E. Bailey^1,†, R. J. Christianson¹, U. Gasser^1,‡, V. Prasad^1,§, P. N. Segre^1,**, M. P. Doherty³, S. Sankaran³, A. L. Jankovsky³, B. Shiley⁴, J. Bowen⁴, J. Eggers⁴, C. Kurta⁴, T. Lorik⁴, and D. A. Weitz^1
1Department of Physics & DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
²DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 022138, USA
³NASA Glenn Research Center, Brook Park, Ohio 44135, USA
⁴Zin Technologies, Inc., Brook Park, Ohio 44142, USA

^*Present address: GDPC cc 26, Universite Montpellier II, P. E. Bataillon, Montpellier 34000, France.

^†Present address: Scitech Instruments, Inc., North Vancouver, BC, Canada V7J 2S5.

^‡Present address: Dept. of Physics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.

^§Present address: Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

^**Present address: NASA Marshall SpaceFlight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA.