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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 146, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4973351
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- European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant NANOPRS) [617266]
- University of Kyoto SPIRITS fund
- Royal Society
The formation of colloidal gels is strongly dependent on the volume fraction of the system and the strength of the interactions between the colloids. Here we explore very dilute solutions by the means of numerical simulations and show that, in the absence of hydrodynamic interactions and for sufficiently strong interactions, percolating colloidal gels can be realised at very low values of the volume fraction. Characterising the structure of the network of the arrested material we find that, when reducing the volume fraction, the gels are dominated by low-energy local structures, analogous to the isolated clusters of the interaction potential. Changing the strength of the interaction allows us to tune the compactness of the gel as characterised by the fractal dimension, with low interaction strength favouring more chain-like structures.
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