Colloidal gels: equilibrium and non-equilibrium routes
By Emanuela Zaccarelli. 2007
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We attempt a classification of different colloidal gels based on colloid–colloid interactions. We discriminate primarily between non-equilibrium and equilibrium routes to gelation, the former case being slaved to thermodynamic phase separation while the latter is individuated in the framework of competing interactions and of patchy colloids. Emphasis is put on recent numerical simulations of colloidal gelation and their connection to experiments. Finally, we underline typical signatures of different gel types, to be looked at, in more detail, in experiments.
Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Molecular Medicine
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- Computational protein design: a review (2017, background): “The versatility of patchy polymers is based on the rich ensemble of self-assembling properties of the patchy colloids themselves as summarized in the work of Francesco Sciortino [143–148] and the reviews [113, 149].”
- The role of local structure in dynamical arrest (2014, background): “In the former case, non-equilibrium gels are formed when a system becomes thermodynamically unstable to demixing into colloid-rich (“colloidal liquid”) and colloidpoor (“colloidal gas”) phases, but the ensuing spinodal decomposition is arrested by vitrification of the dense phase [316, 522, 539, 577”
- Spatiotemporal control of intracellular phase transitions using light-activated optoDroplets (2016, neutral): “In simple non-biological systems, moving deep into the two-phase region, corresponding to a high degree of supersaturation, can lead to condensation of assemblies with arrested dynamics, typically referred to as gels or glasses ((Lu et al., 2008), (Zaccarelli, 2007)).”