Spinning Two Glasses
Spinning Two Glasses
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 11th November 2002
- Speaker: Nhan Pham (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Colloidal hard-spheres with short range attraction induced by added polymer have been used as a simple model to study the glass transition experimentally. In this talk I will show recent results of dynamics and structures of non-equilibrium colloid-polymer mixtures, which shows that there are two qualitatively different types of glass. I will also outline the technique used to obtain dynamics data: spinning the sample (hence the title, there's nothing to do with spin-glasses).
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