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SUBMITTER: Brader JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2741226 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brader Joseph M JM Voigtmann Thomas T Fuchs Matthias M Larson Ronald G RG Cates Michael E ME
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090814 36
The mode coupling theory (MCT) of glasses, while offering an incomplete description of glass transition physics, represents the only established route to first-principles prediction of rheological behavior in nonergodic materials such as colloidal glasses. However, the constitutive equations derivable from MCT are somewhat intractable, hindering their practical use and also their interpretation. Here, we present a schematic (single-mode) MCT model which incorporates the tensorial structure of th ...[more]