Granular materials flow like complex fluids

Binquan Kou, Yixin Cao, Jindong Li, Chengjie Xia, Zhifeng Li, Haipeng Dong, Ang Zhang, Jie Zhang, Walter Kob () and Yujie Wang ()
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Binquan Kou: School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yixin Cao: School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jindong Li: School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chengjie Xia: School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zhifeng Li: School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Haipeng Dong: Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Ang Zhang: Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Jie Zhang: School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Walter Kob: Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, University of Montpellier and CNRS
Yujie Wang: School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Nature, 2017, vol. 551, issue 7680, 360-363

Abstract: The relaxation dynamics of granular materials is more like that of complex fluids than that of thermal glass-forming systems, owing to the absence of the ‘cage effect’.

Date: 2017
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