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Imtroduzione. IV Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, Glasses and Amorphous Materials Pisa, September 2006. Francesco Sciortino. Gel-forming patchy colloids and network glass formers: Thermodynamic and Dynamic analogies. Motivations.
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Imtroduzione IV Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, Glasses and Amorphous Materials Pisa, September 2006 Francesco Sciortino Gel-forming patchy colloids and network glass formers: Thermodynamic and Dynamic analogies
Motivations • The fate of the liquid state (assuming crystallization can be prevented)…. Gels and phase separation: essential features (Sticky colloids - Proteins) • Thermodynamic and dynamic behavior of new patchy colloids • Revisiting dynamics in network forming liquids (Silica, water….) • Essential ingredients of “strong behavior” (A. Angell scheme).
BMLJ (Sastry) Liquid-Gas Spinodal Glass line (D->0) Binary Mixture LJ particles “Equilibrium” “homogeneous” arrested states only for large packing fraction (see also Debenedetti/Stillinger)
Phase diagram of spherical potentials* 0.13<fc<0.27 [if the attractive range is very small ( <10%)] * “Hard-Core” plus attraction
Gelation (arrest at low f) as a result of phase separation (interrupted by the glass transition) T T f f
How to go to low T at low f(in metastable equilibrium) ?Is there something else beside Sastry’s scenario for a liquid to end ? How to suppress phase separation ? -controlling valency (Hard core complemented by attractions) -l.r. repulsion (Hard core complemented by both attraction and repulsions
Maximum Valency Geometric Constraint: Maximum Valency (E. Zaccarelli et al, PRL, 2005) V(r ) SW if # of bonded particles <= Nmax HS if # of bonded particles > Nmax r
Nmax phase diagram NMAX-modifiedPhase Diagram
Patchy particles Hard-Core (gray spheres) Short-range Square-Well (gold patchy sites) No dispersion forces The essence of bonding !!!
Pine Self-Organization of Bidisperse Colloids in Water Droplets Young-Sang Cho, Gi-Ra Yi, Jong-Min Lim, Shin-Hyun Kim, Vinothan N. Manoharan,, David J. Pine, and Seung-Man Yang J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2005;127(45) pp 15968 - 15975;
Steric Incompatibilities Steric incompatibilities satisfied if SW width d<0.11 No double bonding Single bond per bond site
Wertheim Wertheim Theory (TPT): predictions E. Bianchi et al, PRL, in press
Wertheim Mixtures of particles with 2 and 3 bonds Empty liquids !
Patchy particles (critical fluctuations) (N.B. Wilding) ~N+sE E. Bianchi et al, PRL, in press
Lattice-gas calculation for reduced valence (Sastry/La Nave) cond-mat
A snapshot of a <M>=2.025 (low T) case, f=0.033 Ground State (almost) reached ! Bond Lifetime ~ebu
Dipolar Hard Sphere Dipolar Hard Spheres… Camp et al PRL (2000) Tlusty-Safram, Science (2000)
Del Gado Del Gado ….. Del Gado/Kob EPL 2005
Message MESSAGE (so far…): REDUCTION OF THE MAXIMUM VALENCY OPENS A WINDOW IN DENSITIES WHERE THE LIQUID CAN BE COOLED TO VERY LOW T WITHOUT ENCOUNTERING PHASE SEPARATION THE LIFETIME OF THE BONDS INCREASES ON COOLING THE LIFETIME OF THE STRUCTURE INCREASES ARREST A LOW f CAN BE APPROACHED CONTINUOUSLY ON COOLING (MODEL FOR GELS) HOW ABOUT MOLECULAR NETWORKS ? IS THE SAME MECHANISM ACTIVE ? HOW ABOUT DYNAMICS ?
The PMW model J. Kolafa and I. Nezbeda, Mol. Phys. 161 87 (1987) V(r ) Hard-Sphere + 4 sites (2H, 2LP) Tetrahedral arrangement H-LP interact via a SW Potential, of range l=0.15 s. r u0 (energy scale) s (length scale) Bonding is properly defined --- Lowest energy state is well defined
Critical Point of PMW GC simulation BOX SIZE=6s TC=0.1095 fC=0.153 (Flavio Romano Laurea Thesis)
Pagan-Gunton Pagan and Gunton JCP (2005)
The PMS ModelFord, Auerbach, Monson, J.Chem.Phys, 8415,121 (2004) Silicon Four sites (tetrahedral) SW interaction between Si sites and O sites Oxygen Two sites 145.8 o sOO=1.6 s l=[1-3 /2]s 1/2
Critical point PSM Critical Point of PMS GC simulation BOX SIZE=9s TC=0.075 fC=0.0445 s=0.45
Potential Energy (# of bonds) for the PMW Optimal density !
PMW energy Potential Energy -- Approaching the ground state Progressive increase in packing prevents approach to the GS
Potential Energy along isotherms Phase-separation Optimal density Hints of a LL CP
E vs n Phase-separation
Summary of static data Phase Separation Region Packing Region Spherical Interactions Region of phase separation Optimal Network Region - Arrhenius Approach to Ground State Packing Region Patchy Interactions
How About Dynamics (in the new network region) ?
Dynamics in the Nmax=4 model (no angular constraints) Strong Liquid Dynamics !
Nmax=4 phase diagram - Isodiffusivity lines Zaccarelli et al JCP 2006
R2 vs t PMW
PMW -- Diffusion Coefficient Cross-over to strong behavior
D along isotherms Diffusion Anomalies
Isodiffusivities …. Isodiffusivities (PMW) ….
Diffusion PMS De Michele et al, cond mat