Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2006-07-31
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
We study the structure and the dynamics in the formation of irreversible gels by means of molecular dynamics simulation of a model system where the gelation transition is due to the random percolation of permanent bonds between neighboring particles. We analyze the heterogeneities of the dynamics in terms of the fluctuations of the intermediate scattering functions: In the sol phase close to the percolation threshold, we find that this dynamical susceptibility increases with the time until it reaches a plateau. At the gelation threshold this plateau scales as a function of the wave vector $k$ as $k^{\eta -2}$, with $\eta$ being related to the decay of the percolation pair connectedness function. At the lowest wave vector, approaching the gelation threshold it diverges with the same exponent $\gamma$ as the mean cluster size. These findings suggest an alternative way of measuring critical exponents in a system undergoing chemical gelation.
Abete T.
Candia Antonio de
Coniglio Antonio
Fierro Annalisa
Gado Emanuela Del
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