Measurement of the self-intermediate scattering function of suspensions of hard spherical particles near the glass transition

@article{citeulike:1304927, abstract = {Dynamic light-scattering measurements are reported for suspensions at concentrations in the vicinity of the glass transition. In a mixture of identically sized but optically different particles having hard-sphere-like interactions; we project out the incoherent (or self-) intermediate scattering functions by adjusting the refractive index of the suspending liquid until scattering from the structure is suppressed. Due to polydispersity; crystallization is sufficiently slow so that good estimates of ensemble-averaged quantities can be measured for the metastable fluid states. Crystallization of the suspensions is still exploited; however; to set the volume fraction scale in terms of effective hard spheres and to eliminate (coherent) scattering from the structure. The glass-transition volume fraction is identified by the value where large-scale particle motion ceases. The nonequilibrium nature of the glass state is evidenced by the dependence on the waiting time of the long time decay of the relaxation functions. The self-intermediate scattering functions show negligible deviation from Gaussian behavior up to the onset of large-scale diffusion in the fluid or the onset of waiting time effects in the glass.}, author = {van Megen, W. and Mortensen, T. C. and Williams, S. R. and M\"{u}ller, J. }, citeulike-article-id = {1304927}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.58.6073}, journal = {Physical Review E}, keywords = {dls, scattering, structure}, month = {November}, number = {5}, pages = {6073+}, posted-at = {2008-04-26 00:40:47}, priority = {2}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {Measurement of the self-intermediate scattering function of suspensions of hard spherical particles near the glass transition}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.58.6073}, volume = {58}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1304927 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1304927 TI - Measurement of the self-intermediate scattering function of suspensions of hard spherical particles near the glass transition JF - Physical Review E VL - 58 IS - 5 SP - 6073 PB - American Physical Society N2 - Dynamic light-scattering measurements are reported for suspensions at concentrations in the vicinity of the glass transition. In a mixture of identically sized but optically different particles having hard-sphere-like interactions; we project out the incoherent (or self-) intermediate scattering functions by adjusting the refractive index of the suspending liquid until scattering from the structure is suppressed. Due to polydispersity; crystallization is sufficiently slow so that good estimates of ensemble-averaged quantities can be measured for the metastable fluid states. Crystallization of the suspensions is still exploited; however; to set the volume fraction scale in terms of effective hard spheres and to eliminate (coherent) scattering from the structure. The glass-transition volume fraction is identified by the value where large-scale particle motion ceases. The nonequilibrium nature of the glass state is evidenced by the dependence on the waiting time of the long time decay of the relaxation functions. The self-intermediate scattering functions show negligible deviation from Gaussian behavior up to the onset of large-scale diffusion in the fluid or the onset of waiting time effects in the glass. KW - dls KW - scattering KW - structure AU - van Megen, W AU - Mortensen, TC AU - Williams, SR AU - Müller, J PY - 1998/11// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.58.6073 ER -