Arrested phase separation in a short-ranged attractive colloidal system: A numerical study

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 22, 2005, Pages

  Foffi, G ^a,b   De Michele, C ^b,c   Sciortino, F ^b,c   Tartaglia, P ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT ROMAND DE RECHERCHE NUMÉRIQUE EN PHYSIQUE DES MATÉRIAUX IRRMA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; NEWTONIAN DYNAMICS (ND); PACKING FRACTIONS; SHORT-RANGED ATTRACTIVE COLLOIDAL (SARC) SYSTEMS;

AGGLOMERATION; BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; PHASE SEPARATION; QUENCHING; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VECTORS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 20544449875     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1924704     Document Type: Article

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