Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a fractal model gel

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 130, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Suarez, M A ^a,b   Kern, N ^a   Pitard, E ^a,c   Kob, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN-LIKE; DEFLECTION ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION LIMITED CLUSTER AGGREGATION; FINITE TEMPERATURES; FRACTAL MODEL; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; INTERMEDIATE SCATTERING FUNCTIONS; LONG-RANGE REPULSIONS; MEAN SQUARED DISPLACEMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS COMPUTER SIMULATIONS; OUT-OF-EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS; SHORT-RANGE ATTRACTION; SMALL CLUSTERS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; TIME DEPENDENCE; WAITING-TIME; WAVE VECTOR; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

AGGLOMERATION; FRACTALS; GELATION; GELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 65949110575     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3129247     Document Type: Article

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