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Relaxation functions and dynamical heterogeneities in a model of chemical gel interfering with glass transition

2017/02/01 by Antonio de Candia, A. de Candia, Annalisa Fierro +3
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chemical physics #Condensed matter physics #Dynamical heterogeneity #Glass transition #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Nuclear magnetic resonance #Physics #Polymer #Quantum mechanics #Relaxation (psychology) #Statistical physics #Superposition principle #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjst/e2016-60175-x

published as Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2017) 226: 323 · The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60175-x

openalex publication_date 2017/02/01 · openalex created_date 2017/03/16 · arxiv created 2017/05/06 · arxiv updated 2017/05/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We investigate the heterogeneous dynamics in a model, where chemical gelation and glass transition interplay, focusing on the dynamical susceptibility. Two independent mechanisms give raise to the correlations, which are manifested in the dynamical susceptibility: one is related to the presence of permanent clusters, while the other is due to the increase of particle crowding as the glass transition is approached. The superposition of these two mechanisms originates a variety of different behaviours. We show that these two mechanisms can be unentangled considering the wave vector dependence of the dynamical susceptibility.

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