Aging in two dimensional suspensions of rods as driven by Brownian diffusion

Abstract

Aging in a two dimensional suspension containing rods was studied by means of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. An off-lattice model with continuous positional and orientational degrees of freedom was considered. The initial state was produced using a random sequential adsorption model. During the aging, the rods underwent translational and rotational Brownian motions. The simulations were run at different values of number density (the number of rods per unit area), $\rho$, and of the initial orientation order parameter, $S_i$. The rods were assumed to have core---shell structures. The evolutions of both the connectivity and the order parameter in the course of the aging were examined.

8 pages, 8 figures

References in corpus (5)

• Continuum Percolation Thresholds in Two Dimensions
• Orientational correlations and the effect of spatial gradients in the equilibrium steady state of hard rods in 2D : A study using deposition-evaporation kinetics
• Phase diagram of self-assembled rigid rods on two-dimensional lattices: Theory and Monte Carlo simulations
• Kinetics of the long-range spherical model
• Jamming and percolation properties of random sequential adsorption with relaxation

Cited by in corpus (6)

• Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulations of Inhomogeneous Colloidal Suspensions
• Random sequential adsorption of partially ordered discorectangles onto a continuous plane
• Connectedness percolation in the random sequential adsorption packings of elongated particles
• Dynamics of Uniaxial-to-Biaxial Nematics Switching in Suspensions of Hard Cuboids
• "Paris car parking problem" for partially ordered discorectangles on a line
• Relaxation of saturated random sequential adsorption packings of discorectangles aligned on a line