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Kinetic glass transition in a micellar system with short-range attractive interaction
Mallamace1, Gambadauro, Micali
1Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Genova, Italy.
Physical Review Letters
|September 16, 2000
Abstract:
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.