The long-term fate of the attractive colloidal glass
The long-term fate of the attractive colloidal glass
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 30th March 2009
- Speaker: Professor Wilson Poon (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
I will present new simulation results to show that so-called attractive glasses in dense colloids are, ultimately, caged by topology, so that they are 'bonded repulsive glasses'. We have also discovered a new state, 'densed gels', that previously has been thought to be identical to attractive glasses. These results together prompts a new 'state diagram' for dense attractive colloid systems.
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