Reentrant glass transition in a colloid-polymer mixture with depletion attractions

Details Reentrant glass transition in a colloid-polymer mixture with depletion attractions Reentrant glass transition in a colloid-polymer mixture with depletion attractions

2002-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203513v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

14 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.125701

Performing light scattering experiments we show that introducing short-ranged attraction to a colloidal suspension of nearly hard spheres by addition of free polymer produces new glass transition phenomena. We observe a dramatic acceleration of the density fluctuations amounting to the melting of a colloidal glass. 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 reentrant glass transition is in qualitative agreement with recent theoretical predictions.

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