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Diaz Maier J, Wagner J. Rescaled mode-coupling scheme for the quantitative description of experimentally observed colloid dynamics. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:064605. [PMID: 39020974 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.064605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2024] [Accepted: 05/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
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We describe experimentally observed collective dynamics in colloidal suspensions of model hard-sphere particles using a modified mode coupling theory (MCT). This rescaled MCT is capable of describing quantitatively the wave-vector and time-dependent diffusion in these systems. Intermediate scattering functions of liquidlike structured dispersions are determined by means of static and dynamic light-scattering experiments. The structure and short-time dynamics of the systems can be described quantitatively employing a multicomponent Percus-Yevick ansatz for the partial structure factors and an effective, one-component description of hydrodynamic interactions based on the semianalytical δγ expansion. Combined with a recently proposed empirical modification of MCT in which memory functions are calculated using effective structure factors at rescaled number densities, the scheme is able to model the collective dynamics over the entire accessible time and wave-vector range and predicts the volume-fraction-dependence of long-time self-diffusion coefficients and the zero-shear viscosity quantitatively. This highlights the potential of MCT as a practical tool for the quantitative analysis and prediction of experimental observations.
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López-Flores L, de la Cruz MO. Induced phase transformation in ionizable colloidal nanoparticles. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2023; 46:122. [PMID: 38060163 PMCID: PMC10703989 DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00386-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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Acid-base equilibria directly influence the functionality and behavior of particles in a system. Due to the ionizing effects of acid-base functional groups, particles will undergo charge exchange. The degree of ionization and their intermolecular and electrostatic interactions are controlled by varying the pH and salt concentration of the solution in a system. Although the pH can be tuned in experiments, it is hard to model this effect using simulations or theoretical approaches. This is due to the difficulty in treating charge regulation and capturing the cooperative effects in a colloidal suspension with Coulombic interaction. In this work, we analyze a suspension of ionizable colloidal particles via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, along with Monte Carlo simulations for charge regulation (MC-CR) and derive a phase diagram of the system as a function of pH. It is observed that as pH increases, particles functionalized with acid groups change their arrangement from face-centered cubic (FCC) packing to a disordered state. We attribute these transitions to an increase in the degree of charge polydispersity arising from an increase in pH. Our work shows that charge regulation leads to amorphous solids in colloids when the mean nanoparticle charge is sufficiently high.
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- Leticia López-Flores
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
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Wu B, Iwashita T, Chen WR. Scaling of Shear Rheology of Concentrated Charged Colloidal Suspensions across Glass Transition. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:922-927. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c06683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Bin Wu
- Key Laboratory of Beam Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Department of Integrated Science and Technology, Oita University, Oita 870-1192, Japan
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Niu R, Heidt S, Sreij R, Dekker RI, Hofmann M, Palberg T. Formation of a transient amorphous solid in low density aqueous charged sphere suspensions. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17044. [PMID: 29213089 PMCID: PMC5719089 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17106-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Colloidal glasses formed from hard spheres, nearly hard spheres, ellipsoids and platelets or their attractive variants, have been studied in great detail. Complementing and constraining theoretical approaches and simulations, the many different types of model systems have significantly advanced our understanding of the glass transition in general. Despite their early prediction, however, no experimental charged sphere glasses have been found at low density, where the competing process of crystallization prevails. We here report the formation of a transient amorphous solid formed from charged polymer spheres suspended in thoroughly deionized water at volume fractions of 0.0002-0.01. From optical experiments, we observe the presence of short-range order and an enhanced shear rigidity as compared to the stable polycrystalline solid of body centred cubic structure. On a density dependent time scale of hours to days, the amorphous solid transforms into this stable structure. We further present preliminary dynamic light scattering data showing the evolution of a second slow relaxation process possibly pointing to a dynamic heterogeneity known from other colloidal glasses and gels. We compare our findings to the predicted phase behaviour of charged sphere suspensions and discuss possible mechanisms for the formation of this peculiar type of colloidal glass.
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- Ran Niu
- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, D-55099, Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, D-55099, Mainz, Germany
- Graduate School Materials Science in Mainz, Staudinger Weg 9, D-55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Physical and Biophysical Chemistry (PC III), Bielefeld University, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, NL-3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, D-55099, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, D-55099, Mainz, Germany
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Braibanti M, Kim HS, Şenbil N, Pagenkopp MJ, Mason TG, Scheffold F. The liquid-glass-jamming transition in disordered ionic nanoemulsions. Sci Rep 2017; 7:13879. [PMID: 29118340 PMCID: PMC5678350 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13584-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Accepted: 09/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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In quenched disordered out-of-equilibrium many-body colloidal systems, there are important distinctions between the glass transition, which is related to the onset of nonergodicity and loss of low-frequency relaxations caused by crowding, and the jamming transition, which is related to the dramatic increase in elasticity of the system caused by the deformation of constituent objects. For softer repulsive interaction potentials, these two transitions become increasingly smeared together, so measuring a clear distinction between where the glass ends and where jamming begins becomes very difficult or even impossible. Here, we investigate droplet dynamics in concentrated silicone oil-in-water nanoemulsions using light scattering. For zero or low NaCl electrolyte concentrations, interfacial repulsions are soft and longer in range, this transition sets in at lower concentrations, and the glass and the jamming regimes are smeared. However, at higher electrolyte concentrations the interactions are stiffer, and the characteristics of the glass-jamming transition resemble more closely the situation of disordered elastic spheres having sharp interfaces, so the glass and jamming regimes can be distinguished more clearly.
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- Marco Braibanti
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Cui M, Miesch C, Kosif I, Nie H, Kim PY, Kim H, Emrick T, Russell TP. Transition in Dynamics as Nanoparticles Jam at the Liquid/Liquid Interface. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:6855-6862. [PMID: 29048914 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Nanoparticles (NPs) segregated to the liquid/liquid interface form disordered or liquid-like assemblies that show diffusive motions in the plane of the interface. As the areal density of NPs at the interface increases, the available interfacial area decreases, and the interfacial dynamics of the NP assemblies change when the NPs jam. Dynamics associated with jamming was investigated by X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. Water-in-toluene emulsions, formed by a self-emulsification at the liquid/liquid interface and stabilized by ligand-capped CdSe-ZnS NPs, provided a simple, yet powerful platform, to investigate NP dynamics. In contrast to a single planar interface, these emulsions increased the number of NPs in the incident beam and decreased the absorption of X-rays in comparison to the same path length in pure water. A transition from diffusive to confined dynamics was manifested by intermittent dynamics, indicating a transition from a liquid-like to a jammed state.
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- Mengmeng Cui
- Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst , 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst , 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst , 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology , Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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- Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst , 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst , 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst , 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst , 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , 1 Cylcotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029, China
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Petkova-Olsson Y, Ullsten H, Järnström L. Thermosensitive Silica-Pluronic-Starch model coating dispersion-Part II: The relationship between rheology and microstructure. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2016.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Zuccolotto-Bernez AB, Braham NB, Haro-Pérez C, Rojas-Ochoa LF. Characterization of slow dynamics in turbid colloidal systems by a cross-correlation scheme based on echo dynamic light scattering. APPLIED OPTICS 2016; 55:8806-8812. [PMID: 27828278 DOI: 10.1364/ao.55.008806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We describe the implementation of echo dynamic light scattering in a cross-correlation detection scheme, which enables the study of slow dynamics in moderately turbid colloidal systems by adapting a commercial light scattering device. Our setup combines a 3D cross-correlation detection scheme (3DDLS), which allows for suppression of multiple scattering, with the speckle echo technique for dynamic light scattering. The recorded cross-correlation echoes provide precise ensemble-averaged results that appropriately describe sample dynamics of ergodic and non-ergodic colloidal systems of different turbidities. Additionally, the high mechanical stability achieved in our setup makes possible an absolute estimation of the scattering intensity correlation function (ICF) directly from the height of echoes, thus making unnecessary any correction for imperfect rotation of the sample or of any ad hoc assumption regarding the correspondence between the absolute values of echo height and ICF. Furthermore, we find that zeroth-order echo height represents the coherence factor of the 3DDLS experiment.
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Xie F, Turesson M, Woodward CE, van Gruijthuijsen K, Stradner A, Forsman J. Theoretical predictions of structures in dispersions containing charged colloidal particles and non-adsorbing polymers. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:11422-34. [PMID: 27056112 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07814h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We develop a theoretical model to describe structural effects on a specific system of charged colloidal polystyrene particles, upon the addition of non-adsorbing PEG polymers. This system has previously been investigated experimentally, by scattering methods, so we are able to quantitatively compare predicted structure factors with corresponding experimental data. Our aim is to construct a model that is coarse-grained enough to be computationally manageable, yet detailed enough to capture the important physics. To this end, we utilize classical polymer density functional theory, wherein all possible polymer configurations are accounted for, subject to a mean-field Boltzmann weight. We make efforts to counteract drawbacks with this mean-field approach, resulting in structural predictions that agree very well with computationally more demanding simulations. Electrostatic interactions are handled at the fully non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann level, and we demonstrate that a linearization leads to less accurate predictions. The particle charge is an experimentally unknown parameter. We define the surface charge such that the experimental and theoretical gel point at equal polymer concentration coincide. Assuming a fixed surface charge for a certain salt concentration, we find very good agreements between measured and predicted structure factors across a wide range of polymer concentrations. We also present predictions for other structural quantities, such as radial distribution functions, and cluster size distributions. Finally, we demonstrate that our model predicts the occurrence of equilibrium clusters at high polymer concentrations, but low particle volume fractions and salt levels.
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- Fei Xie
- Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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- Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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- School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University College, University of New South Wales, ADFA, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des verdiers 4, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Physical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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de Melo Marques FA, Angelini R, Zaccarelli E, Farago B, Ruta B, Ruocco G, Ruzicka B. Structural and microscopic relaxations in a colloidal glass. SOFT MATTER 2015; 11:466-471. [PMID: 25406421 DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02010c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The aging dynamics of a colloidal glass has been studied by multiangle dynamic light scattering, neutron spin echo, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. The two relaxation processes, microscopic (fast) and structural (slow), have been investigated in an unprecedentedly wide range of time and length scales covering both ergodic and nonergodic regimes. The microscopic relaxation time remains diffusive at all length scales across the glass transition scaling with wavevector Q as Q(-2). The length-scale dependence of structural relaxation time changes from diffusive, characterized by a Q(-2)-dependence in the early stages of aging, to a Q(-1)-dependence in the full aging regime which marks a discontinuous hopping dynamics. Both regimes are associated with a stretched behaviour of the correlation functions. We expect these findings to provide a general description of both relaxations across the glass transition.
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- Flavio Augusto de Melo Marques
- Center for Life Nano Science, IIT@Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Regina Elena 291, I-00161 Roma, Italy.
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Pilkiewicz KR, Eaves JD. Reentrance in an active glass mixture. SOFT MATTER 2014; 10:7495-7501. [PMID: 25208297 DOI: 10.1039/c4sm01177e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Active matter, whose motion is driven, and glasses, whose dynamics are arrested, seem to lie at opposite ends of the spectrum in nonequilibrium systems. In spite of this, both classes of systems exhibit a multitude of stable states that are dynamically isolated from one another. While this defining characteristic is held in common, its origin is different in each case: for active systems, the irreversible driving forces can produce dynamically frozen states, while glassy systems vitrify when they get kinetically trapped on a rugged free energy landscape. In a mixture of active and glassy particles, the interplay between these two tendencies leads to novel phenomenology. We demonstrate this with a spin glass model that we generalize to include an active component. In the absence of a ferromagnetic bias, we find that the spin glass transition temperature depresses with the active fraction, consistent with what has been observed for fully active glassy systems. When a bias does exist, however, a new type of transition becomes possible: the system can be cooled out of the glassy phase. This unusual phenomenon, known as reentrance, has been observed before in a limited number of colloidal and micellar systems, but it has not yet been observed in active glass mixtures. Using low order perturbation theory, we study the origin of this reentrance and, based on the physical picture that results, suggest how our predictions might be measured experimentally.
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- Kevin R Pilkiewicz
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Yazdi A, Ivlev A, Khrapak S, Thomas H, Morfill GE, Löwen H, Wysocki A, Sperl M. Glass-transition properties of Yukawa potentials: from charged point particles to hard spheres. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:063105. [PMID: 25019902 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.063105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The glass transition is investigated in three dimensions for single and double Yukawa potentials for the full range of control parameters. For vanishing screening parameter, the limit of the one-component plasma is obtained; for large screening parameters and high coupling strengths, the glass-transition properties cross over to the hard-sphere system. Between the two limits, the entire transition diagram can be described by analytical functions. Unlike other potentials, the glass-transition and melting lines for Yukawa potentials are found to follow shifted but otherwise identical curves in control-parameter space.
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- Anoosheh Yazdi
- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, 51170 Köln, Germany and Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 85741 Garching, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 85741 Garching, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 85741 Garching, Germany and Forschungsgruppe Komplexe Plasmen, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 85741 Garching, Germany and Forschungsgruppe Komplexe Plasmen, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 85741 Garching, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany and Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics, Institute for Advanced Simulation and Institute of Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, 51170 Köln, Germany
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van Gruijthuijsen K, Obiols-Rabasa M, Heinen M, Nägele G, Stradner A. Sterically stabilized colloids with tunable repulsions. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:11199-11207. [PMID: 23937718 DOI: 10.1021/la402104q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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When studying tunable electrostatic repulsions in aqueous suspensions of charged colloids, irreversible colloid aggregation or gelation may occur at high salt concentrations. For many commonly used synthetic colloids, such as polystyrene and silica particles, the reason for coagulation is the presence of unbalanced, strongly attractive, and short-ranged van der Waals (VDW) forces. Here, we present an aqueous polystyrene model colloid that is sterically stabilized against VDW attractions. We show that the synthesis procedure, based on a neutral initiator couple and a nonionic surfactant, introduces surface charges that can be further increased by the addition of charged comonomer methacrylic acid. Thus, the interactions between the polystyrene spheres can be conveniently tuned from hard-sphere-like to charge-stabilized with long-ranged electrostatic repulsions described by a Yukawa-type pair potential. The particle size, grafting density, core-shell structure, and surface charge are characterized by light and neutron scattering. Using X-ray and neutron scattering in combination with an accurate analytic integral equation scheme for the colloidal static structure factor, we deduce effective particle charges for colloid volume fractions ≥0.1 and salt concentrations in the range of 1.5 to 50 mM.
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- Kitty van Gruijthuijsen
- Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg , Rte de l'ancienne Papeterie 1, CH-1723 Marly, Switzerland
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Kang K, Dhont JKG. Glass transition in suspensions of charged rods: structural arrest and texture dynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 110:015901. [PMID: 23383809 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.015901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2012] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We report on the observation of a glass transition in suspensions of very long and thin, highly charged colloidal rods (fd-virus particles). Structural particle arrest is found to occur at a low ionic strength due to caging of the charged rods in the potential setup by their neighbors through long-ranged electrostatic interactions. The relaxation time of density fluctuations as probed by dynamic light scattering is found to diverge within a small concentration range. The rod concentration where structural particle arrest occurs is well within the full chiral-nematic state, far beyond the two-phase isotropic-nematic coexistence region. The morphology of the suspensions thus consists of nematic domains with various orientations. We quantify the dynamics of the resulting texture with image-time correlation spectroscopy. Interestingly, the decay times of image correlation functions are found to diverge in a discontinuous fashion at the same concentration of charged rods where structural particle arrest is observed. At the glass-transition concentration, we thus find both structural arrest and freezing of the texture dynamics.
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- K Kang
- Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-3, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
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Brader JM, Cates ME, Fuchs M. First-principles constitutive equation for suspension rheology. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:021403. [PMID: 23005759 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.021403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We provide a detailed derivation of a recently developed first-principles approach to calculating averages in systems of interacting, spherical Brownian particles under time-dependent flow. Although we restrict ourselves to flows which are both homogeneous and incompressible, the time dependence and geometry (e.g., shear and extension) are arbitrary. The approximations formulated within mode-coupling theory are particularly suited to dense colloidal suspensions and capture the slow relaxation arising from particle interactions and the resulting glass transition to an amorphous solid. The delicate interplay between slow structural relaxation and time-dependent external flow in colloidal suspensions thus may be studied within a fully tensorial theory.
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- J M Brader
- Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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Wiemann M, Schneider R, Bartsch E. Synthesis of PEG-Stabilized Fluoro-Acrylate Particles and Study of their Glass Transition in Aqueous Dispersion. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1524/zpch.2012.0263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Synthesis of colloidal particles which are sterically stabilized in water and at the same time isorefractive in aqueous dispersion has been achieved by copolymerizing a fluoracrylate monomer with a PEG-macromonomer. Colloidal stability against salt addition and freeze-thawing cycles is demonstrated, indicating that the particles consist of a core of fluoroacrylate and a stabilizing surface layer of grafted PEG. To test the performance as a model system for studies of colloidal vitrification in aqueous media, the dynamics of a binary mixture of these particles with a size ratio of 0.8 and a number ratio of 1.3 (small : large particles) were studied in an isorefractive mixture of water and DMSO (≈ 11 mol % DMSO). The characteristic features of a system close to the glass transition were observed in the density density autocorrelation function f(q, τ) as measured by DLS. However, the glass transition occurred at an unexpectedly low volume fraction of 0.262. This discrepancy correlates with an unusually large difference between TEM and DLS radii and is explained by the presence of a rather extended hairy PEG surface layer.
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- Malte Wiemann
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Freiburg, Deutschland
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- Department of Macromolecular Chemistry, Freiburg, Deutschland
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Heinen M, Holmqvist P, Banchio AJ, Nägele G. Pair structure of the hard-sphere Yukawa fluid: An improved analytic method versus simulations, Rogers-Young scheme, and experiment. J Chem Phys 2011; 134:044532. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3524309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ramírez-González P, Medina-Noyola M. General nonequilibrium theory of colloid dynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 82:061503. [PMID: 21230674 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.061503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2009] [Revised: 10/27/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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A nonequilibrium extension of Onsager's canonical theory of thermal fluctuations is employed to derive a self-consistent theory for the description of the statistical properties of the instantaneous local concentration profile n(r,t) of a colloidal liquid in terms of the coupled time-evolution equations of its mean value n(r,t) and of the covariance [Formula in text] of its fluctuations δn(r,t)=n(r,t)-n(r,t). These two coarse-grained equations involve a local mobility function b(r,t) which, in its turn, is written in terms of the memory function of the two-time correlation function [Formula in text]. For given effective interactions between colloidal particles and applied external fields, the resulting self-consistent theory is aimed at describing the evolution of a strongly correlated colloidal liquid from an initial state with arbitrary mean and covariance n(0)(r) and σ(0)(r,r') toward its equilibrium state characterized by the equilibrium local concentration profile n(eq)(r) and equilibrium covariance σ(eq)(r,r'). This theory also provides a general theoretical framework to describe irreversible processes associated with dynamic arrest transitions, such as aging, and the effects of spatial heterogeneities.
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- Pedro Ramírez-González
- Instituto de Física Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Álvaro Obregón 64, San Luis Potosí, 78000 San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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Fischer B, Wagner J, Gutt C, Westermeier F, Grübel G. Structure and dynamics of glassy charged colloids studied with coherent small angle X-ray scattering. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/247/1/012026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Fischer B, Autenrieth T, Wagner J. Highly charged inorganic-organic colloidal core-shell particles. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2010; 26:6201-6205. [PMID: 20355707 DOI: 10.1021/la903872a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Highly defined, hybrid inorganic-organic colloidal core-shell particles consisting of a silica core and a shell of fluorinated acrylate are prepared in a two-step route. The core-shell structure of the particles is investigated by means of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Because of highly acidic sulfonic acid surface groups resulting from the radical initiator sodium peroxodisulfate at the organic shell, long-range electrostatic interactions lead to the formation of liquidlike mesostructures. Increasing the effective interaction by reducing the next-neighbor distances induces a freezing of the liquidlike structures, i.e., a transition to crystalline and glassy structures. Because of the high electron density in the core and the fluorinated polymer shell, these particles are strong X-ray scatterers. In combination with the large number of effective charges and the outstanding monodispersity, these core-shell particles are a promising model system for the investigation of the glass transition by photon correlation spectroscopy employing coherent X-rays.
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- Birgit Fischer
- HASYLAB, Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany
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Medina-Noyola M, Ramírez-González P. Non-equilibrium relaxation and near-arrest dynamics in colloidal suspensions. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2009; 21:504103. [PMID: 21836214 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/50/504103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In this work we propose a theory to describe the irreversible diffusive relaxation of the local concentration of a colloidal dispersion that proceeds toward its stable thermodynamic equilibrium state, but which may in the process be trapped in metastable or dynamically arrested states. The central assumption of this theory is that the irreversible relaxation of the macroscopically observed mean value [Formula: see text] of the local concentration of colloidal particles is described by a diffusion equation involving a local mobility b(*)(r,t) that depends not only on the mean value [Formula: see text] but also on the covariance [Formula: see text] of the fluctuations [Formula: see text]. This diffusion equation must hence be solved simultaneously with the relaxation equation for the covariance σ(r,r';t), and here we also derive the corresponding relaxation equation. The dependence of the local mobility b(*)(r,t) on the mean value and the covariance is determined by a self-consistent set of equations involving now the spatially and temporally non-local time-dependent correlation functions, which in a uniform system in equilibrium reduces to the self-consistent generalized Langevin equation (SCGLE) theory of colloid dynamics. The resulting general theory considers the possibility that these relaxation processes occur under the influence of external fields, such as gravitational forces acting in the process of sedimentation. In this paper, however, we describe a simpler application, in which the system remains spatially uniform during the irreversible relaxation process, and discuss the general features of the glass transition scenario predicted by this non-equilibrium theory.
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- M Medina-Noyola
- Instituto de Física 'Manuel Sandoval Vallarta', Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Álvaro Obregón 64, 78000 San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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Nonlinear Rheological Properties of Dense Colloidal Dispersions Close to a Glass Transition Under Steady Shear. ADVANCES IN POLYMER SCIENCE 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/12_2009_30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Scheffold F, Mason TG. Scattering from highly packed disordered colloids. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2009; 21:332102. [PMID: 21828592 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/33/332102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We discuss the measurable structure factor S(M)(q) of highly concentrated nanoemulsions in a glassy amorphous state. Neutron scattering data show that the primary structure factor peak decreases with increasing concentration and eventually drops below unity. We find very good quantitative agreement between the experimental S(M)(q) and analytical predictions for a polydisperse hard sphere fluid. Subunity structure factor peaks are predicted for dense fluids near and above the jamming transition.
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- F Scheffold
- Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Chemin de Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Sánchez-Díaz LE, Vizcarra-Rendón A, Juárez-Maldonado R. Ionic and Wigner glasses, superionic conductors, and spinodal electrostatic gels: dynamically arrested phases of the primitive model. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 103:035701. [PMID: 19659296 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.035701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Based on the recently proposed self-consistent generalized Langevin equation theory of dynamic arrest, in this letter we show that the ergodic-nonergodic phase diagram of a classical mixture of charged hard spheres (the so-called "primitive model" of ionic solutions and molten salts) includes arrested phases corresponding to nonconducting ionic glasses, partially arrested states that represent solid electrolytes (or "superionic" conductors), low-density colloidal Wigner glasses, and low-density electrostatic gels associated with arrested spinodal decomposition.
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- L E Sánchez-Díaz
- Instituto de Física Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Alvaro Obregón 64, 78000 San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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Hajnal D, Fuchs M. Flow curves of colloidal dispersions close to the glass transition. Asymptotic scaling laws in a schematic model of mode coupling theory. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2009; 28:125-138. [PMID: 18777045 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2008-10361-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The flow curves, viz. the curves of stationary stress under steady shearing, are obtained close to the glass transition in dense colloidal dispersions using asymptotic expansions in the schematic F₁₂(γ)-model of mode coupling theory. The shear thinning of the viscosity in fluid states and the yielding of glassy states is discussed. At the transition between fluid and shear-molten glass, simple and generalized Herschel-Bulkley laws are derived with power law exponents that can be computed for different particle interactions from the equilibrium structure factor.
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- D Hajnal
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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Reufer M, Díaz-Leyva P, Lynch I, Scheffold F. Temperature-sensitive poly(N-isopropyl-acrylamide) microgel particles: a light scattering study. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2009; 28:165-171. [PMID: 19031089 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2008-10387-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2008] [Accepted: 10/09/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We present a light scattering study of aqueous suspensions of microgel particles consisting of poly(N-Isopropyl-Acrylamide) cross-linked gels. The solvent quality for the particles depends on temperature and thus allows tuning of the particle size. The particle synthesis parameters are chosen such that the resulting high surface charge of the particles prevents aggregation even in the maximally collapsed state. We present results on static and dynamic light scattering (SLS/DLS) for a highly diluted sample and for diffuse optical transmission on a more concentrated system. In the maximally collapsed state the scattering properties are well described by Mie theory for homogenous hard spheres. Upon swelling we find that a radially inhomogeneous density profile develops.
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- M Reufer
- Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Crassous JJ, Siebenbürger M, Ballauff M, Drechsler M, Hajnal D, Henrich O, Fuchs M. Shear stresses of colloidal dispersions at the glass transition in equilibrium and in flow. J Chem Phys 2008; 128:204902. [PMID: 18513043 DOI: 10.1063/1.2921801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We consider a model dense colloidal dispersion at the glass transition, and investigate the connection between equilibrium stress fluctuations, seen in linear shear moduli, and the shear stresses under strong flow conditions far from equilibrium, viz., flow curves for finite shear rates. To this purpose, thermosensitive core-shell particles consisting of a polystyrene core and a cross-linked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) shell were synthesized. Data over an extended range in shear rates and frequencies are compared to theoretical results from integrations through transients and mode coupling approaches. The connection between nonlinear rheology and glass transition is clarified. While the theoretical models semiquantitatively fit the data taken in fluid states and the predominant elastic response of glass, a yet unaccounted dissipative mechanism is identified in glassy states.
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- J J Crassous
- Physikalische Chemie I, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Zaccarelli E, Andreev S, Sciortino F, Reichman DR. Numerical investigation of glassy dynamics in low-density systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 100:195701. [PMID: 18518461 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.195701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2007] [Revised: 04/14/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Vitrification in colloidal systems typically occurs at high densities driven by sharply varying, short-ranged interactions. The possibility of glassy behavior arising from smoothly varying, long-ranged particle interactions has received relatively little attention. Here we investigate the behavior of screened charged particles, and explicitly demonstrate that these systems exhibit glassy properties in the regime of low temperature and low density. Properties close to this low-density (Wigner) glass transition share many features with their hard-sphere counterparts, but differ in quantitative aspects that may be accounted for via microscopic theoretical considerations.
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- Emanuela Zaccarelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica and CNR-INFM-SOFT, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Juárez-Maldonado R, Medina-Noyola M. Theory of dynamic arrest in colloidal mixtures. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2008; 77:051503. [PMID: 18643070 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.77.051503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2007] [Revised: 02/18/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We present a first-principles theory of dynamic arrest in colloidal mixtures based on the multicomponent self-consistent generalized Langevin equation theory of colloid dynamics [M. A. Chávez-Rojo and M. Medina-Noyola, Phys. Rev. E 72, 031107 (2005); M. A. Chávez-Rojo and M. Medina-Noyola, Phys. Rev. E76, 039902 (2007)]. We illustrate its application with a description of dynamic arrest in two simple model colloidal mixtures: namely, hard-sphere and repulsive Yukawa binary mixtures. Our results include observation of the two patterns of dynamic arrest, one in which both species become simultaneously arrested and the other involving the sequential arrest of the two species. The latter case gives rise to mixed states in which one species is arrested while the other species remains mobile. We also derive the ("bifurcation" or fixed-point") equations for the nonergodic parameters of the system, which takes the surprisingly simple form of a system of coupled equations for the localization length of the particles of each species. The solution of this system of equations indicates unambiguously which species is arrested (finite localization length) and which species remains ergodic (infinite localization length). As a result, we are able to draw the entire ergodic-nonergodic phase diagram of the binary hard-sphere mixture.
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- R Juárez-Maldonado
- Instituto de Física "Manuel Sandoval Vallarta," Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Alvaro Obregón 64, 78000 San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
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Yeomans-Reyna L, Chávez-Rojo MA, Ramírez-González PE, Juárez-Maldonado R, Chávez-Páez M, Medina-Noyola M. Dynamic arrest within the self-consistent generalized Langevin equation of colloid dynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2007; 76:041504. [PMID: 17994991 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.76.041504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2007] [Revised: 07/26/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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This paper presents a recently developed theory of colloid dynamics as an alternative approach to the description of phenomena of dynamic arrest in monodisperse colloidal systems. Such theory, referred to as the self-consistent generalized Langevin equation (SCGLE) theory, was devised to describe the tracer and collective diffusion properties of colloidal dispersions in the short- and intermediate-time regimes. Its self-consistent character, however, introduces a nonlinear dynamic feedback, leading to the prediction of dynamic arrest in these systems, similar to that exhibited by the well-established mode coupling theory of the ideal glass transition. The full numerical solution of this self-consistent theory provides in principle a route to the location of the fluid-glass transition in the space of macroscopic parameters of the system, given the interparticle forces (i.e., a nonequilibrium analog of the statistical-thermodynamic prediction of an equilibrium phase diagram). In this paper we focus on the derivation from the same self-consistent theory of the more straightforward route to the location of the fluid-glass transition boundary, consisting of the equation for the nonergodic parameters, whose nonzero values are the signature of the glass state. This allows us to decide if a system, at given macroscopic conditions, is in an ergodic or in a dynamically arrested state, given the microscopic interactions, which enter only through the static structure factor. We present a selection of results that illustrate the concrete application of our theory to model colloidal systems. This involves the comparison of the predictions of our theory with available experimental data for the nonergodic parameters of model dispersions with hard-sphere and with screened Coulomb interactions.
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- L Yeomans-Reyna
- Departamento de Física, Universidad de Sonora, Boulevard Luis Encinas y Rosales, 83000, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
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Guo H, Wilking JN, Liang D, Mason TG, Harden JL, Leheny RL. Slow, nondiffusive dynamics in concentrated nanoemulsions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2007; 75:041401. [PMID: 17500888 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.041401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2006] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Using multispeckle x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we have measured the slow, wave-vector-dependent dynamics of concentrated, disordered nanoemulsions composed of silicone oil droplets in water. The intermediate scattering function possesses a compressed exponential line shape and a relaxation time that varies inversely with wave vector. We interpret this dynamics as strain in response to local stress relaxation. The motion includes a transient component whose characteristic velocity decays exponentially with time following a mechanical perturbation of the nanoemulsions and a second component whose characteristic velocity is essentially independent of time. The steady-state characteristic velocity is surprisingly insensitive to the droplet volume fraction in the concentrated regime, indicating that the strain motion is only weakly dependent on the droplet-droplet interactions.
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- H Guo
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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Shalkevich A, Stradner A, Bhat SK, Muller F, Schurtenberger P. Cluster, glass, and gel formation and viscoelastic phase separation in aqueous clay suspensions. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2007; 23:3570-80. [PMID: 17323984 DOI: 10.1021/la062996i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We have systematically investigated the phase diagram of clay particles in water to understand the relation between the local and macroscopic properties and the structures of clay suspensions. We focused, in particular, on sodium Cloisite (CNa) particles at concentrations typically used in nanocomposites (concentrations from 1 to 4 wt %) and at an extended range of ionic strengths (10(-5) to 10(-2) M NaCl). The suspensions have been characterized using rheology and a combination of scattering techniques (neutrons, X-rays, and light). We demonstrate the existence of a liquid cluster phase at low clay and intermediate salt concentrations and provide new insight into the nature of the solid-like dispersions at low and high ionic strengths.
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- Andrey Shalkevich
- Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Crassous JJ, Siebenbürger M, Ballauff M, Drechsler M, Henrich O, Fuchs M. Thermosensitive core-shell particles as model systems for studying the flow behavior of concentrated colloidal dispersions. J Chem Phys 2006; 125:204906. [PMID: 17144739 DOI: 10.1063/1.2374886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We report on a comprehensive investigation of the flow behavior of colloidal thermosensitive core-shell particles at high densities. The particles consist of a solid core of poly(styrene) onto which a network of cross-linked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) is affixed. Immersed in water the shell of these particles will swell if the temperature is low. Raising the temperature above 32 degrees C leads to a volume transition within this shell which leads to a marked shrinking of the shell. The particles have well-defined core-shell structure and a narrow size distribution. The remaining electrostatic interactions due to a small number of charges affixed to the core particles can be screened by adding 0.05M KCl to the suspensions. Below the lower critical solution temperature at 32 degrees C the particles are purely repulsive. Above this transition, a thermoreversible coagulation takes place. Lowering the temperature again leads to full dissociation of the aggregates formed by this process. The particles crystallize for effective volume fractions between 0.48 and 0.55. The crystallites can be molten by shear in order to reach a fluid sample again. The reduced shear stress measured in this metastable disordered state was found to be a unique function of the shear rate and the effective volume fraction. These reduced flow curves thus obtained can be described quantitatively by the theory of Fuchs and Cates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 248304 (2002)] which is based on the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition.
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- J J Crassous
- Physikalische Chemie 1, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Wagner J, Fischer B, Autenrieth T. Field induced anisotropy of charged magnetic colloids: A rescaled mean spherical approximation study. J Chem Phys 2006; 124:114901. [PMID: 16555915 DOI: 10.1063/1.2176678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The liquidlike structure of colloidal suspensions with both electrostatic and magnetic interactions is investigated by means of small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) dependent on an external magnetic field. For weak magnetic interactions, without external field, the magnetic dipoles are randomly oriented. Under this condition, isotropic structures are observed. In an external field, however, the magnetic momenta arrange parallel to the external field and induce anisotropic liquidlike structures. For weak magnetic interactions, the structure factor can be described within the framework of the rescaled mean spherical approximation. Due to the high experimental accuracy of synchrotron SAXS, from the anisotropic distortion of liquidlike structures, interparticle forces smaller than 10(-15) N can easily be detected.
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- Joachim Wagner
- Physical Chemistry, Saarland University, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Zakharov P, Cardinaux F, Scheffold F. Multispeckle diffusing-wave spectroscopy with a single-mode detection scheme. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2006; 73:011413. [PMID: 16486146 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.73.011413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2005] [Revised: 12/02/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We present a detection scheme for diffusing-wave spectroscopy (DWS) based on a two-cell geometry that allows efficient ensemble averaging. This is achieved by putting a fast rotating diffuser in the optical path between laser and sample. We show that the recorded (multispeckle) correlation echoes provide an ensemble averaged signal that does not require additional time averaging. Furthermore, combined with traditional two-cell DWS, the full intensity autocorrelation function can be measured with a single experimental setup. The scheme provides access to a large range of correlation times thus opening an experimental window for the study of slowly relaxing and arrested systems, such as viscoelastic complex fluids, colloidal glasses, and gels.
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- P Zakharov
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Zackrisson M, Stradner A, Schurtenberger P, Bergenholtz J. Structure, dynamics, and rheology of concentrated dispersions of poly(ethylene glycol)-grafted colloids. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2006; 73:011408. [PMID: 16486141 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.73.011408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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A comprehensive experimental study of the dynamics and rheology of concentrated aqueous dispersions of poly(ethylene glycol)-grafted colloidal spheres is reported. The study focuses on good solvent conditions, for which excluded-volume interactions dominate. At high concentrations a glass transition is evident from the nondecaying component of the intensity correlation function measured with three-dimensional dynamic light scattering. Results for the linear viscoelastic and steady shear rheology on approaching the glass transition correlate well with the slowing of the diffusive dynamics; in particular, at, or close to, the concentration where the dynamics becomes nonergodic, the dispersions acquire a low-frequency plateau in the elastic shear modulus as well as a yield stress. The overall behavior of the dispersions conforms to that of hard-sphere dispersions; however, some qualitative differences are observed in the evolution of the dynamics and rheology with increasing concentration near the glass transition.
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- Malin Zackrisson
- Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden.
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Fuchs M, Ballauff M. Nonlinear rheology of dense colloidal dispersions: A phenomenological model and its connection to mode coupling theory. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2005.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Faunce CA, Reichelt H, Paradies HH, Quitschau P, Zimmermann K. The liquidlike ordering of lipid A-diphosphate colloidal crystals: The influence of Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, and K+ on the ordering of colloidal suspensions of lipid A-diphosphate in aqueous solutions. J Chem Phys 2005; 122:214727. [PMID: 15974782 DOI: 10.1063/1.1913477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A comprehensive study was performed on electrostatically stabilized aqueous dispersion of lipid A-diphosphate in the presence of bound Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, and Na+ ions at low ionic strength (0.10-10.0-mM NaCl, 25 degrees C) over a range of volume fraction of 1.0 x 10(-4)< or =phi< or =4.95 x 10(-4). These suspensions were characterized by light scattering (LS), quasielastic light scattering, small-angle x-ray scattering, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, conductivity measurements, and acid-base titrations. LS and electron microscopy yielded similar values for particle sizes, particle size distributions, and polydispersity. The measured static structure factor, S(Q), of lipid A-diphosphate was seen to be heavily dependent on the nature and concentration of the counterions, e.g., Ca2+ at 5.0 nM, Mg2+ at 15.0 microM, and K+ at 100.0 microM (25 degrees C). The magnitude and position of the S(Q) peaks depend not only on the divalent ion concentration (Ca2+ and Mg2+) but also on the order of addition of the counterions to the lipid A-diphosphate suspension in the presence of 0.1-microM NaCl. Significant changes in the rms radii of gyration (R2G) 1/2 of the lipid A-diphosphate particles were observed in the presence of Ca2+ (24.8+/-0.8 nm), Mg2+ (28.5+/-0.7 nm), and K+ (25.2+/-0.6 nm), whereas the Na+ salt (29.1+/-0.8 nm) has a value similar to the one found for the de-ionized lipid A-diphosphate suspensions (29.2+/-0.8 nm). Effective particle charges were determined by fits of the integral equation calculations of the polydisperse static structure factor, S(Q), to the light-scattering data and they were found to be in the range of Z*=700-750 for the lipid A-diphosphate salts under investigation. The light-scattering data indicated that only a small fraction of the ionizable surface sites (phosphate) of the lipid A-diphosphate was partly dissociated (approximately 30%). It was also discovered that a given amount of Ca2+ (1.0-5.0 nM) or K+ (100 microM) influenced the structure much more than Na+ (0.1-10.0-mM NaCl) or Mg2+ (50 microM). By comparing the heights and positions of the structure factor peaks S(Q) for lipid A-diphosphate-Na+ and lipid A-diphosphate-Ca2+, it was concluded that the structure factor does not depend simply on ionic strength but more importantly on the internal structural arrangements of the lipid A-diphosphate assembly in the presence of the bound cations. The liquidlike interactions revealed a considerable degree of ordering in solution accounting for the primary S(Q) peak and also the secondary minimum at large particle separation. The ordering of lipid A-diphosphate-Ca2+ colloidal crystals in suspension showed six to seven discrete diffraction peaks and revealed a face-centered-cubic (fcc) lattice type (a=56.3 nm) at a volume fraction of 3.2 x 10(-4)< or =phi< or =3.9 x 10(-4). The K+ salt also exhibited a fcc lattice (a=55.92 nm) at the same volume fractions, but reveals a different peak intensity distribution, as seen for the lipid A-diphosphate-Ca2+ salt. However, the Mg2+ and the Na+ salts of lipid A-diphosphate showed body-centered-cubic (bcc) lattices with a=45.50 nm and a=41.50 nm, respectively (3.2 x 10(-4)< or =phi< or =3.9 x 10(-4)), displaying the same intensity distribution with the exception of the (220) diffraction peaks, which differ in intensity for both salts of lipid A-diphosphate.
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- C A Faunce
- The University of Salford, Joule Physics Laboratory, Institute for Materials Science Research, Salford M5 4WT, United Kingdom
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Fuchs M, Ballauff M. Flow curves of dense colloidal dispersions: Schematic model analysis of the shear-dependent viscosity near the colloidal glass transition. J Chem Phys 2005; 122:094707. [PMID: 15836162 DOI: 10.1063/1.1859285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A recently proposed schematic model for the nonlinear rheology of dense colloidal dispersions is compared to flow curves measured in suspensions that consist of thermosensitive particles. The volume fraction of this purely repulsive model system can be adjusted by changing temperature. Hence, high volume fractions (phi</=0.63) can be achieved in a reproducible manner. The quantitative analysis of the flow curves suggests that the theoretical approach captures the increase of the low shear viscosity with increasing density, the shear thinning for increasing shear rate, and the yielding of a soft glassy solid. Variations of the high shear viscosity can be traced back to hydrodynamic interactions which are not contained in the present approach but can be incorporated into the data analysis by an appropriate rescaling.
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- Matthias Fuchs
- Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany.
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Voigtmann T, Puertas AM, Fuchs M. Tagged-particle dynamics in a hard-sphere system: mode-coupling theory analysis. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 70:061506. [PMID: 15697373 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.70.061506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The predictions of the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT) for the tagged-particle density-correlation functions and the mean-squared displacement curves are compared quantitatively and in detail to results from Newtonian- and Brownian-dynamics simulations of a polydisperse quasi-hard-sphere system close to the glass transition. After correcting for a 17% error in the dynamical length scale and for a smaller error in the transition density, good agreement is found over a wide range of wave numbers and up to five orders of magnitude in time. Deviations are found at the highest densities studied, and for small wave vectors and the mean-squared displacement. Possible error sources not related to MCT are discussed in detail, thereby identifying more clearly the issues arising from the MCT approximation itself. The range of applicability of MCT for the different types of short-time dynamics is established through asymptotic analyses of the relaxation curves, examining the wave-number and density-dependent characteristic parameters. Approximations made in the description of the equilibrium static structure are shown to have a remarkable effect on the predicted numerical value for the glass-transition density. Effects of small polydispersity are also investigated, and shown to be negligible.
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- Th Voigtmann
- University of Edinburgh, School of Physics, JCMB The Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland
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Trappe V, Sandkühler P. Colloidal gels—low-density disordered solid-like states. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2004.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Puertas AM, Fuchs M, Cates ME. Dynamical heterogeneities close to a colloidal gel. J Chem Phys 2004; 121:2813-22. [PMID: 15281886 DOI: 10.1063/1.1768936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Dynamical heterogeneities in a colloidal fluid close to gelation are studied by means of computer simulations. A clear distinction between some fast particles and the rest, slow ones, is observed yielding a picture of the gel composed of two populations with different mobilities. Analyzing the statics and dynamics of both sets of particles, it is shown that the slow particles form a network of stuck particles, whereas the fast ones are able to move over long distances. Correlation functions show that the environment of the fast particles relaxes much faster than that of the slow ones, but at short times the bonds between fast particles are longer lived due to the flexibility of their structure. No stringlike motion is observed for the fast particles, but they occupy preferential sites in the surface of the structure formed by the slow ones.
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- Antonio M Puertas
- Group of Complex Fluids Physics, Department of Applied Physics, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
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Puertas AM, Fuchs M, Cates ME. Simulation study of nonergodicity transitions: gelation in colloidal systems with short-range attractions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2003; 67:031406. [PMID: 12689066 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.67.031406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2002] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Computer simulations were used to study the gel transition occurring in colloidal systems with short-range attractions. A colloid-polymer mixture was modeled and the results were compared with mode coupling theory (MCT) expectations and with the results for other systems (hard-spheres system and Lennard-Jones system). The self-intermediate scattering function and the mean squared displacement were used as the main dynamical quantities. Two different colloid packing fractions have been studied. For the lower packing fraction, alpha-scaling holds and the wave-vector analysis of the correlation function shows that gelation is a regular nonergodicity transition within MCT. The leading mechanism for the novel nonergodicity transition is identified as the bond formation caused by the short-range attraction. The time scale and diffusion coefficient also show qualitatively the expected behavior, although different exponents are found for the power-law divergences of these two quantities. The non-Gaussian parameter was also studied and a very large correction to Gaussian behavior was found. The system with higher colloid packing fraction shows indications of a nearby high-order singularity, causing alpha scaling to fail, but the general expectations for nonergodicity transitions still hold.
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Eckert T, Bartsch E. Re-entrant glass transition in a colloid-polymer mixture with depletion attractions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2002; 89:125701. [PMID: 12225101 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.125701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2002] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Performing light scattering experiments we show that introducing short-ranged attraction to a colloid suspension of nearly hard spheres by addition of a free polymer produces new glass-transition phenomena. We observe a dramatic acceleration of the density fluctuations amounting to the melting of a colloidal glass. Upon increasing the strength of the attractions the system freezes into another nonergodic state sharing some qualitative features with gel states occurring at lower colloid packing fractions. This re-entrant glass transition is in qualitative agreement with recent theoretical predictions.
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- T Eckert
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Mainz, Jakob-Welder-Weg 15, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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Dawson K, Foffi G, Fuchs M, Götze W, Sciortino F, Sperl M, Tartaglia P, Voigtmann T, Zaccarelli E. Higher-order glass-transition singularities in colloidal systems with attractive interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 63:011401. [PMID: 11304254 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.63.011401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The transition from a liquid to a glass in colloidal suspensions of particles interacting through a hard core plus an attractive square-well potential is studied within the mode-coupling-theory framework. When the width of the attractive potential is much shorter than the hard-core diameter, a reentrant behavior of the liquid-glass line and a glass-glass-transition line are found in the temperature-density plane of the model. For small well-width values, the glass-glass-transition line terminates in a third-order bifurcation point, i.e., in a A3 (cusp) singularity. On increasing the square-well width, the glass-glass line disappears, giving rise to a fourth-order A4 (swallow-tail) singularity at a critical well width. Close to the A3 and A4 singularities the decay of the density correlators shows stretching of huge dynamical windows, in particular logarithmic time dependence.
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- K Dawson
- Irish Centre for Colloid Science and Biomaterials, University College Dublin, Belfield
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Banchio AJ, Nägele G, Bergenholtz J. Collective diffusion, self-diffusion and freezing criteria of colloidal suspensions. J Chem Phys 2000. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1286964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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