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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 109, Issue 45, Pages 21235-21240Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp0514168
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We perform experiments on two different dense colloidal suspensions with confocal microscopy to probe the relationship between local structure and dynamics near the glass transition. We calculate the Voronoi volume 19 for our particles and show that this quantity is not a universal probe of glassy structure for all colloidal suspensions. We correlate the Voronoi volume to displacement and find that these quantities are only weakly correlated. We observe qualitatively similar results in a simulation of a polymer melt. These results suggest that the Voronoi volume does not predict dynamical behavior in experimental colloidal suspensions; a purely 44 structural approach based on local single particle volume likely cannot describe the colloidal glass transition.
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