A unifying model for chemical and colloidal gels
- 1 July 2003
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 63 (1) , 1-7
- https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00468-4
Abstract
We investigate the slow dynamics in gelling systems by means of MonteCarlo simulations on the cubic lattice of a minimal statistical mechanics model. By opportunely varying some model parameter we are able to describe a crossover from the chemical gelation behaviour to dynamics more typical of colloidal systems. The results suggest a novel connection linking classical gelation, as originally described by Flory, to more recent results on colloidal systems.Keywords
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