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Controlled Synthesis and Fluorescence Tracking of Highly Uniform PolyN-isopropylacrylamide Microgels
Published on: September 8, 2016
Composition distributions of particles in a gelling mixture
1Geophysical Center of Russian Academy of Science, 3, Molodezhnaya Street, 119296 Moscow, Russia and Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, 10 Vorontsovo Pole, 105064 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
Gelation in a two component disperse system wherein binary coagulation governs the temporal changes of particle composition spectra is studied for the crossproduct coagulation kernel proportional to m1n2+m2n1, with m,n being the numbers of monomers of the first and the second component in the coalescing pair of particles. This model reveals the sol-gel transition, i.e., after a finite interval of time the conservation of the total particle mass concentration violates because of the formation of giant particles (the gel). This paper reports on the exact solution of this model for arbitrary initial particle composition spectra. Exact expressions for the particle composition spectrum, the gel mass, and the second moments of the composition distribution are derived. Two scenarios of gelation, where the gel is either active or passive, are considered.
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