Formation of soft material in terms of a coupled matter migration-and-relaxation picture: a synchronous mode

Abstract

This study is devoted to draw a mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics (mnet)-based description of the model soft material, such as that made of clusters of amphiphilic molecules or biopolymer surfactants. The description offered also enters the region of nonlinear viscoelastic behaviour of soft-matter agglomerates, both in a fluctuation-driven (quantitatively, being realized in an synchronous mode) and some flow-driven (mostly, qualitatively) regime. A special emphasis is placed on a novel concept, termed the emergent (power-law) behaviour, which tries to effectively combine data available about specific soft-matter (complex) systems that under variety of physicochemical conditions often manifest a certain interesting mesoscopic properties.