C60: the first one-component gel?

Details C60: the first one-component gel? C60: the first one-component gel?

2011-02-15

arxiv.org/abs/1102.2959v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Accepted by J. Phys. Chem. C. special issue 'Clusters in complex fluids'

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Until now, gels have been formed of multicomponent soft matter systems, consisting of a solvent and one or more macromolecular or colloidal species. Here we show that, for sufficient quench rates, the Girifalco model of C60 can form gels which we identify by their slow dynamics and long-lived network structure. These gels are stable at room temperature, at least on the simulation timescale up to 100 ns. At moderate temperatures around 1000 K, below the bulk glass transition temperature, C60 exhibits crystallisation and phase separation proceeds without the dynamical arrest associated with gelation, in contrast to many colloidal systems.

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