Slow dynamics in gelation phenomena: from chemical gels to colloidal glasses

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13 December 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

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

GELATION PHENOMENA
COLLOIDAL GLASSES
COLLOIDAL SYSTEMS
SLOW DYNAMICS
CHEMICAL GELS
STATISTICAL
MODEL
GELS

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Published version: Europhysics Letters, 63 (1), 1.

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