Kinetics of bond formation in crosslinked gelatin gels

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2006-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607560v2

Journal of Chemical Physics 125, 174903 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 9 figures, revised version

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2363384

In chemical crosslinking of gelatin solutions, two different time scales affect the kinetics of the gel formation in the experiments. We complement the experimental study with Monte Carlo numerical simulations of a lattice model. This approach shows that the two characteristic time scales are related to the formation of single bonds crosslinker-chain and of bridges between chains. In particular their ratio turns out to control the kinetics of the gel formation. We discuss the effect of the concentration of chains. Finally our results suggest that, by varying the probability of forming bridges as an independent parameter, one can finely tune the kinetics of the gelation via the ratio of the two characteristic times.

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