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Recent Developments in Aggregation Kinetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2013

D. Asnaghi ,
M. Carpineti  and
M. Giglio
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Colloidal aggregation is a very old field of research. The basic mechanism that controls the stability of colloidal solutions has been described in the celebrated papers of Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, and Overbeek (DLVO), and indeed the prevention of undesired aggregation is one of the primary concerns in many industrial processes involving colloids. In the last 10 years a resurgence of interest in aggregation rather than in stability has been spurred by a number of fortuitous coincidences. Both through simulations and experiments, it was realized that colloidal aggregates exhibit a fractal nature. More importantly, it was found that there are two universal modes of aggregation, irrespective of the type of colloidal system. The aggregates grown according to these modes have different fractal dimensions, different reaction kinetics, and different mass distributions. The two modes are called diffusion-limited cluster aggregation (DLCA) and reaction-limited cluster aggregation (RLCA), according to whether the probability that a bond formed as a consequence of an encounter is equal to, or much smaller than one, respectively. The study of these limiting cases has been the object of extensive studies in the late 1980s, and many of the features of these modes are by now well understood.

This article describes some recent results in the area of colloidal aggregation. Although we present mostly static light-scattering data from our laboratory, connections to similar work from other groups are also discussed. For the convenience of the reader, we start by recalling some of the relevant features of both DLCA and RLCA.

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Mesoscopic Disorder
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , May 1994 , pp. 14 - 18
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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