When gel and glass meet: A mechanism for multistep relaxation

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Chaudhuri, Pinaki ^a   Berthier, Ludovic ^b   Hurtado, Pablo I ^c   Kob, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY; LOGARITHMIC DECAY; MULTI-STEP; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PHYSICAL GEL; THREE-STEP PROCESS; TIME CORRELATION FUNCTIONS;

COAGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATORS; GELATION; GELS; GLASS;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 77951726280     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.040502     Document Type: Article

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