A unifying model for chemical and colloidal gels
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-24 v3 Statistical Mechanics
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0209478,
title = {A unifying model for chemical and colloidal gels},
author = {E. Del Gado and A. Fierro and L. de Arcangelis and A. Coniglio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0209478},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures