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EPL
Volume 78, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/78/26002
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D072751/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/D072751/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We use molecular dynamics simulations of a simple model to show that dispersions of slightly elongated colloidal particles with long-range dipolar interactions, like ferro fluids, can form a physical (reversible) gel at low volume fractions. On cooling, the particles first self-assemble into a transient percolating network of cross-linked chains, which, at much lower temperatures, then undergoes a kinetic transition to a dynamically arrested state with broken ergodicity. This transition from a transient to a frozen gel is characterised by dynamical signatures reminiscent of jamming in much denser dispersions. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2007.
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