We review thixotropy, its attributes, and accompanying rheological phenomena, such as
yielding, hysteresis in shear-rate ramps, the influence of rest time and viscosity bifurcation …

Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays
and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical …

Synthetic hectorite clay Laponite RD/XLG is composed of disk-shaped nanoparticles that
acquire dissimilar charges when suspended in an aqueous medium. Owing to their property …

Owing to nonlinear viscoelasticity, materials often show characteristic features that resemble
those of thixotropy. This issue has been debated in the literature over the past several …

Thixotropy is a phenomenon related to time dependent change in viscosity in the presence
or absence of flow. The yield stress, on the other hand, represents the minimum value of …

Time-dependent yield stress materials abound in nature and in industrial processes.
Examples include clays, light metal alloys, paints and inks, adhesives, gelled waxy crude …

In this work, we investigate signatures of physical aging in an aqueous dispersion of
Carbopol that shows yield stress and weak enhancement in elastic modulus as a function of …

Many thixoviscoelastic materials have been reported to undergo enhancement in elastic
modulus with time and decrease in the same under application of deformation field …

To predict the complex rheology and shear-rate inhomogeneities of lamellar gel networks,
we propose a simple thixotropic constitutive model with an elastoplastic stress and a …

Dense emulsions, colloidal gels, microgels, and foams all display a solidlike behavior at rest
characterized by a yield stress, above which the material flows like a liquid. Such a …