Spinodal-type dynamics in fractal aggregation of colloidal clusters
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (22), 3327-3330
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.3327
Abstract
The aggregation of dense colloidal solutions has been investigated by means of low-angle static light scattering. We show that the scattered pattern exhibits a finite-q-vector peak, whose intensity and position change with time. We find that the intensity distributions scale according to S(q/,t)=(tF(q/), in agreement with the scaling law for spinodal decomposition. While d=3 for spinodal decomposition, here scaling requires that d=, the fractal dimension of the clusters.
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