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Diffusion in concentrated colloidal suspensions and glasses
Eckhard Bartschsubject
Polymers and Plasticsbusiness.industryChemistryDiffusiondigestive oral and skin physiologySurfaces and InterfacesHard spheresLight scatteringlaw.inventionCondensed Matter::Soft Condensed MatterColloidColloid and Surface ChemistryOpticsOptical microscopelawChemical physicsMode couplingPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryCrystallizationGlass transitionbusinessdescription
The well established analogy between colloidal suspensions and atomic fluids has been extended to the glass transition problem in the past few years. Colloids have become the ideal test case for checking glass transition theories; this was due to the possibility of modeling hard spheres with colloidal dispersions. Significant progress has also been made in instrumentation, especially in the development of light-scattering techniques allowing moderately turbid and nonergodic samples to be analyzed. Mode coupling theory has become a paradigm not only for the glass transition, but also for the understanding of dynamics in highly concentrated colloidal dispersions where crystallization is suppressed. Application of advanced optical microscopy techniques in combination with computer simulation has started to provide a deeper insight into the physics of colloidal suspensions at volume fractions above freezing.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-12-01 | Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science |