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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.015901
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We report on the observation of a glass transition in suspensions of very long and thin, highly charged colloidal rods (fd-virus particles). Structural particle arrest is found to occur at a low ionic strength due to caging of the charged rods in the potential setup by their neighbors through long-ranged electrostatic interactions. The relaxation time of density fluctuations as probed by dynamic light scattering is found to diverge within a small concentration range. The rod concentration where structural particle arrest occurs is well within the full chiral-nematic state, far beyond the two-phase isotropic-nematic coexistence region. The morphology of the suspensions thus consists of nematic domains with various orientations. We quantify the dynamics of the resulting texture with image-time correlation spectroscopy. Interestingly, the decay times of image correlation functions are found to diverge in a discontinuous fashion at the same concentration of charged rods where structural particle arrest is observed. At the glass-transition concentration, we thus find both structural arrest and freezing of the texture dynamics. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.015901
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