Kenneth S. Schweizer

Nonequilibrium glass-melting mechanism for two step yielding in step-rate shear and post-cessation re-equilibration dynamics in Brownian attractive glasses and dense gels.

Microscopic nonequilibrium statistical mechanical theory is employed to construct a unified framework for the prototypical soft matter system of dense Brownian colloidal suspensions with short-range attractive interactions under continuous step-rate shear deformation and the subsequent re-equilibration dynamics after s...