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On the role of hydrodynamic interactions in colloidal gelation

R. Yamamoto, K. Kim, Y. Nakayama, K. Miyazaki, D. R. Reichman

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0604404

Abstract

In this letter, we investigate several aspects related to the effect of hydrodynamics interactions on phase separation-induced gelation of colloidal particles. We explain physically the observation of Tanaka and Araki[Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1338 (2000)] of hydrodynamic stabilization of cellular network structures in two dimensions. We demonstrate that hydrodynamic interactions have only a minor quantitative influence on the structure of transient gels in three dimensions. We discuss some experimental implications of our results.

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