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Kinetics of the glass transition of fragile soft colloidal suspensions

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 نشر من قبل Debasish Saha
 تاريخ النشر 2015
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Microscopic relaxation timescales are estimated from the autocorrelation functions obtained by dynamic light scattering experiments for Laponite suspensions with different concentrations ($C_{L}$), added salt concentrations ($C_{S}$) and temperatures ($T$). It has been shown in an earlier work [Soft Matter, 10, 3292-3300 (2014)] that the evolutions of relaxation timescales of colloidal glasses can be compared with molecular glass formers by mapping the waiting time ($t_{w}$) of the former with the inverse of thermodynamic temperature ($1/T$) of the latter. In this work, the fragility parameter $D$, which signifies the deviation from Arrhenius behavior, is obtained from fits to the time evolutions of the structural relaxation timescales. For the Laponite suspensions studied in this work, $D$ is seen to be independent of $C_{L}$ and $C_{S}$, but is weakly dependent on $T$. Interestingly, the behavior of $D$ corroborates the behavior of fragility in molecular glass formers with respect to equivalent variables. Furthermore, the stretching exponent $beta$, which quantifies the width $w$ of the spectrum of structural relaxation timescales is seen to depend on $t_{w}$. A hypothetical Kauzmann time $t_{k}$, analogous to the Kauzmann temperature for molecular glasses, is defined as the timescale at which $w$ diverges. Corresponding to the Vogel temperature defined for molecular glasses, a hypothetical Vogel time $t^{infty}_{alpha}$ is also defined as the time at which the structural relaxation time diverges. Interestingly, a correlation is observed between $t_{k}$ and $t^{infty}_{alpha}$, which is remarkably similar to that known for fragile molecular glass formers. A coupling model that accounts for the $t_{w}$-dependence of the stretching exponent is used to analyse and explain the observed correlation between $t_{k}$ and $t^{infty}_{alpha}$.



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