Martedi
29 Maggio
|
Lucilla de Arcangelis |
Complex
dynamics in gelling systems
|
ore
11:40
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Seconda Università di Napoli |
Abstract
Critical
dynamics in gelling polymeric systems is intensively investigated and debated
as the experimental data interpretation and the theoretical description of the
gelation phenomena are quite controversial. In order to study the viscoelastic
properties and the relaxation mechanisms at the gelation transition we have
recently introduced a percolation dynamic model and we here present the results
of extended numerical simulations on the cubic lattice performed on parallel
system CRAY-T3E. The critical behaviour of the viscosity well agrees with the
prediction based on the Rouse model for polymer dynamics and with some experimental
results. The elastic response in the gel phase is purely entropic and the obtained
critical behaviour can be understood in terms of an entropic elasticity model
for the percolating cluster. In the gelation critical regime the relaxation
process shows a long-time stretched exponential decay in the time autocorrelation
functions in the sol and
the occurrence of a power law behaviour in the gel phase. This complex relaxation
behaviour is actually observed in many gelling systems and presents interesting
analogies with the glassy dynamics.