Gelation and Cluster Growth with Cluster-Wall Interactions |
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Authors: | Horacio G Rotstein Amy Novick-Cohen Rina Tannenbaum |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, Technion-IIT, Haifa, Israel, 32000;(2) Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455 |
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Abstract: | Metallic cluster growth within a reactive polymer matrix is modeled by augmenting coagulation equations to include the influence of side reactions of metal atoms with the polymer matrix:
where > 0 and where c
k denotes the concentration of the kth cluster and p denotes the concentration of reactive sites available within the polymer matrix for reaction with metallic atoms. The initial conditions are required to be non-negative and satisfy
and p(0) = p
0. We assume that
for 0![le](/content/w8q5102kg35m6u22/xxlarge8804.gif) ![agr](/content/w8q5102kg35m6u22/xxlarge945.gif) 1, which encompasses both bond linking kernels (R
jk
= j
k
) and surface reaction kernels (R
jk
= j
+ k
). Our analytical and numerical results indicate that the side reactions delay gelation in some cases and inhibit gelation in others. We provide numerical evidence that gelation occurs for the classical coagulation equations ( = 0) with the bond linking kernel (d ) for 1/2<![agr](/content/w8q5102kg35m6u22/xxlarge945.gif) 1. We examine the relative fraction of metal atoms, which coagulate compared to those which interact with the polymer matrix, and demonstrate in particular a linear dependence on –1 in the limiting case R
= jk
, p
0=1. |
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Keywords: | Gelation coagulation equations cluster growth infinite-dimensional dynamical systems metallic clusters in a polymer matrix Smoluchowski equations with side reactions |
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