We review some recent results relevant to colloidal systems with competing interactions. In particular we report some findings concerning the pattern formation phenomena obtained in a 4 theory. Some of the general features are also found in an atomistic model by means of a thermodynamic approach and molecular dynamics simulations. Finally this model is shown to exhibit a structural arrest in a disordered gel-like state, once the ordered state is avoided.
Modulated phases and structural arrest in colloidal systems with competing interactions
A Coniglio;A de Candia;A Fierro
2011
Abstract
We review some recent results relevant to colloidal systems with competing interactions. In particular we report some findings concerning the pattern formation phenomena obtained in a 4 theory. Some of the general features are also found in an atomistic model by means of a thermodynamic approach and molecular dynamics simulations. Finally this model is shown to exhibit a structural arrest in a disordered gel-like state, once the ordered state is avoided.File in questo prodotto:
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