Theory of Microemulsion Glasses
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2009-11-07 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We show that the tendency towards microphase separation in microemulsions leads to the formation of a glassy state after sufficiently strong correlations between polar and hydrophobic regions have been established. Glassiness is predicted to occur above a critical volume fraction of surfactant, which is determined by the length of the amphiphilic molecules. Our results are obtained by solving the dynamical equations for the correlation functions of the system and by using a replica approach.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0105308,
title = {Theory of Microemulsion Glasses},
author = {Sangwook Wu and Harry Westfahl and Joerg Schmalian and Peter G. Wolynes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0105308},
year = {2009}
}
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