2003/12/31 by Francesco Sciortino, Stefano Mossa, Emanuela Zaccarelli +2 · 8 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Material Dynamics and Properties #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Proteins in Food Systems #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.93.055701
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 055701 (2004) · RevTeX4, 4 pages, 4 eps figures
openalex publication_date 2004/07/29 · arxiv created 2004/09/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study a model in which particles interact with short-ranged attractive and long-ranged repulsive interactions, in an attempt to model the equilibrium cluster phase recently discovered in sterically stabilized colloidal systems in the presence of depletion interactions. At low packing fractions, particles form stable equilibrium clusters which act as building blocks of a cluster fluid. We study the possibility that cluster fluids generate a low-density disordered arrested phase, a gel, via a glass transition driven by the repulsive interaction. In this model the gel formation is formally described with the same physics of the glass formation.