(1) Vlaardingen, Unilever Research Laboratorium, Olivier van Noortlaan 120, 3133 AT Vlaardingen, The Netherlands;(2) Van der Waals-Zeeman Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract:
Rayleigh-Brillouin light scattering experiments were performed on gelatin gels in order to obtain the (hypersonic) sound velocity and sound attenuation as a function of gelatin concentration. The results show that in the high frequency regime there is a strong coupling in the gel between the dynamics of the network and that of the fluid. The network sound velocity varies with1/2. Sound attenuation increases with increasing gelatin concentration.