2011/02/15 by C. Patrick Royall, Stephen R. Williams
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Chemical engineering #Chemical physics #Chemistry #Colloid #Component (thermodynamics) #Composite material #Computer science #Crystallization #Glass transition #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Network structure #Organic chemistry #Phase (matter) #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Phase transition #Physical chemistry #Physics #Polymer #Soft matter #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1021/jp109365q
published as J. Phys. Chem. B 115 7288-7293 (2011) · Accepted by J. Phys. Chem. C. special issue 'Clusters in complex fluids'
arxiv created 2011/02/15 · openalex publication_date 2011/02/23 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · arxiv updated 2017/12/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Until now, gels have been formed of multicomponent soft matter systems, consisting of a solvent and one or more macromolecular or colloidal species. Here we show that, for sufficient quench rates, the Girifalco model of C(60) can form gels which we identify by their slow dynamics and long-lived network structure. These gels are stable at room temperature, at least on the simulation time scale up to 100 ns. At moderate temperatures around 1000 K, below the bulk glass transition temperature, C(60) exhibits crystallization and phase separation proceeds without the dynamical arrest associated with gelation, in contrast to many colloidal systems.