We study the structure and the dynamics in the formation of irreversible gels by means of molecular dynamics simulation of a model system where the gelation transition is due to the random percolation of permanent bonds between neighboring particles. We analyze the heterogeneities of the dynamics in terms of the fluctuations of the self-intermediate scattering functions: in the sol phase close to the percolation threshold, we find that this dynamic susceptibility increases with the time until it reaches a plateau. At the gelation threshold this plateau scales as a function of the wave vector k as k(eta-2), with eta being related to the decay of the percolation pair connectedness function. At the lowest wave vector, approaching the gelation threshold it diverges with the same exponent gamma as the mean cluster size. These findings suggest an alternative way of measuring critical exponents in a system undergoing chemical gelation.
Static and dynamic heterogeneities in a model for irreversible gelation / T., Abete; DE CANDIA, Antonio; E., DEL GADO; A., Fierro; Coniglio, Antonio. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - STAMPA. - 98:(2007), pp. 088301-088306. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.088301]
Static and dynamic heterogeneities in a model for irreversible gelation
DE CANDIA, ANTONIO;CONIGLIO, ANTONIO
2007
Abstract
We study the structure and the dynamics in the formation of irreversible gels by means of molecular dynamics simulation of a model system where the gelation transition is due to the random percolation of permanent bonds between neighboring particles. We analyze the heterogeneities of the dynamics in terms of the fluctuations of the self-intermediate scattering functions: in the sol phase close to the percolation threshold, we find that this dynamic susceptibility increases with the time until it reaches a plateau. At the gelation threshold this plateau scales as a function of the wave vector k as k(eta-2), with eta being related to the decay of the percolation pair connectedness function. At the lowest wave vector, approaching the gelation threshold it diverges with the same exponent gamma as the mean cluster size. These findings suggest an alternative way of measuring critical exponents in a system undergoing chemical gelation.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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