Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2009-11-19
J. Chem. Phys. 131, 194906 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
23 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
A theoretical and numerically study of dynamical properties in the sol-gel transition is presented. In particular, the complex phenomenology observed experimentally and numerically in gelling systems is reproduced in the framework of percolation theory, under simple assumptions on the relaxation of single clusters. By neglecting the correlation between particles belonging to different clusters, the quantities of interest (such as the self intermediate scattering function, the dynamical susceptibility, the Van-Hove function, and the non-Gaussian parameter) are written as superposition of those due to single clusters. Connection between these behaviors and the critical exponents of percolation are given. The theoretical predictions are checked in a model for permanent gels, where bonds between monomers are described by a finitely extendable nonlinear elastic potential. The data obtained in the numerical simulations are in good agreement with the analytical predictions.
Abete T.
Coniglio Antonio
Fierro Annalisa
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