Gelling by Heating
Soft Condensed Matter
2013-10-16 v1
Abstract
We introduce a simple model, a binary mixture of patchy particles, which has been designed to form a gel upon heating. Due to the specific nature of the particle interactions, notably the number and geometry of the patches as well as their interaction energies, the system is a fluid both at high and at low temperatures, whereas at intermediate temperatures the system forms a solid-like disordered open network structure, i.e. a gel. Using molecular dynamics we investigate the static and dynamic properties of this system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1303.2582,
title = {Gelling by Heating},
author = {Sandalo Roldan-Vargas and Frank Smallenburg and Walter Kob and Francesco Sciortino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2582},
year = {2013}
}