Dynamics of Internal Stresses and Scaling of Strain Recovery in an Aging Colloidal Gel

Ajay Singh Negi, Chinedum O. Osuji

We monitor the relaxation of internal stresses in a fractal colloidal gel on cessation of flow and find a weak power law decay, ${\sigma }_i\sim t^{-\alpha }$ over 5 decades of time where $α\ap…