Cluster mode-coupling approach to weak gelation in attractive colloids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Kroy, K ^a,b   Cates, M E ^b   Poon, W C K ^b  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELASTIC MODULI; GELS; GLASS TRANSITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; PROBABILITY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; VOLUME FRACTION;

CLUSTER AGGREGATION; CLUSTER PHASES; MODE-COUPLING THEORY (MCT); REPULSIVE GLASSES;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 2542487750     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.148302     Document Type: Article

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