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Title: Kinetic Glass Transition in a Micellar System with Short-Range Attractive Interaction

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Messina, Messina, (Italy)
  3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, (Italy)

We show that percolation and structural arrest transitions coexist in different regions of the phase diagram of a copolymer-micellar system and relate them to short-range intermicellar attraction. The intermediate scattering function shows a nonergodic transition along a temperature and concentration dependent line. Analyses show a logarithmic time dependence, attributed to a higher-order glass transition singularity predicted by mode-coupling theory, followed by a power law. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.

OSTI ID:
20216800
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 84, Issue 23; Other Information: PBD: 5 Jun 2000; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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