A parameter-free description of the kinetics of formation of loop-less branched structures and gels

Soft Matter

Volumn 5, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2571-2575

  Sciortino, Francesco ^a,b   De Michele, Cristiano ^a,b   Corezzi, Silvia ^b,c   Russo, John ^a   Zaccarelli, Emanuela ^a,b   Tartaglia, Piero ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY PROCESS; BRANCHED STRUCTURES; BRANCHING POINTS; BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; IRREVERSIBLE AGGREGATION; PARTICLE SYSTEMS; RATE EQUATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PERTURBATION THEORY; WERTHEIM;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COAGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GELATION;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 67650402386     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b901436e     Document Type: Article

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