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Colloidal systems with competing interactions: from an arrested repulsive cluster phase to a gel
Juan Carlos Fernandez Toledano, Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Zaccarelli
We report an extensive numerical study of a charged colloidal system with competing short-range depletion attraction and long-range electrostatic repulsion. By analizing the cluste…
Multiple glass transitions in star polymer mixtures: Insights from theory and simulations
Christian Mayer, Francesco Sciortino, Christos N. Likos +3
The glass transition in binary mixtures of star polymers is studied by mode coupling theory and extensive molecular dynamics computer simulations. In particular, we have explored v…
A molecular dynamics study of chemical gelation in a patchy particle model
Silvia Corezzi, Cristiano De Michele, Emanuela Zaccarelli +2
We report event-driven molecular dynamics simulations of the irreversible gelation of hard ellipsoids of revolution containing several associating groups, characterizing how the cl…
Theoretical and numerical study of the phase diagram of patchy colloids: ordered and disordered patch arrangements
Emanuela Bianchi, Piero Tartaglia, Emanuela Zaccarelli +1
We report theoretical and numerical evaluations of the phase diagram for a model of patchy particles. Specifically we study hard-spheres whose surface is decorated by a small numbe…
Event-Driven Simulation of the Dynamics of Hard Ellipsoids
Cristiano De Michele, Rolf Schilling, Francesco Sciortino
We introduce a novel algorithm to perform event-driven simulations of hard rigid bodies of arbitrary shape, that relies on the evaluation of the geometric distance. In the case of…
Gel-forming patchy colloids and network glass formers: Thermodynamic and Dynamic analogies
Francesco Sciortino
This article discusses recent attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the thermoreversible "gel" state of colloidal matter and to unravel the analogies between gels at the co…