Description
Kinetics of Aggregation and Gelation presents the proceedings of the International Topical Conference on Kinetics of Aggregation and Gelation held on April 2-4, 1984 in Athens, Georgia. The purpose of the conference was to bring together international experts from a wide variety of backgrounds who are studying phenomena inherently similar to the formation of large clusters by the union of many separate, small elements, to present and exchange ideas on new theories and results of experimental and computer simulations. This book is divided into 57 chapters, each of which represents an oral presentation that is part of a unified whole. The book begins with a presentation on fractal concepts in aggregation and gelation, followed by presentations on topics such as aggregative fractals called ""squigs""; multi-particle fractal aggregation; theory of fractal growth processes; self-similar structures; and interface dynamics. Other chapters cover addition polymerization and related models; the kinetic gelation model; a new model of linear polymers; red cell aggregation kinetics; the Potts Model; aggregation of colloidal silica; the ballistic model of aggregation; stochastic dynamics simulation of particle aggregation; particle-cluster aggregation; kinetic clustering of clusters; computer simulations of domain growth; and perspectives in the kinetics of aggregation and gelation. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of chemistry, theoretical physics, and materials engineering.
Table of Contents
PrefaceProgram Oral Presentations PostersList of ParticipantsFractal Concepts in Aggregation and Gelation: An IntroductionOn the Aggregative Fractals Called "Squigs", which Include Recursive Models of Polymers and of Percolation ClustersOn 2d Percolation Clusters and on Multi-Particle Fractal AggregationTheory of Fractal Growth ProcessesSelf-Similar Structures and the Kinetics of Aggregation of Gold ColloidsElectrostatic Aggregation and Interface DynamicsProperties of the Growing Interface in Diffusion-Limited Aggregation and in the Eden ProcessAddition Polymerization and Related ModelsOscillations and Scaling in a Kinetic Gelation ModelKinetic Gelation with a Constant Initiator Creation RateThe Kinetic Growth Walk: A New Model of Linear PolymersMeasuring Red Cell Aggregation Kinetics with Nuclear Magnetic ResonanceMonte Carlo Simulation of VulcanizationCluster Numbers From the Potts ModelThe Atom Probe: A Direct Technique for Kinetic MeasurementsA Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of the Decomposition of Fe-28Cr-10.5CoAggregation of Colloidal SilicaMean Field Theory for a Ballistic Model of AggregationLarge-Cell Monte Carlo Renormalization of Irreversible Growth ProcessesStochastic Dynamics Simulation of Particle AggregationObservation of Power Law Correlations in Silica-Particle Aggregates by Small-Angle Neutron ScatteringParticle-Cluster Aggregation with Fractal Particle Trajectories and on Fractal SubstratesScaling Properties of Growth by Kinetic Clustering of ClustersCritical Dynamics in Cluster-Cluster AggregationThe Structure and Fractal Dimension of Cluster-Cluster AggregatesComputer Simulations of Domain GrowthRandom-Field Ising Model: Domain Growth TheoryRandom Field Ising Model: Computer Simulations of Domain GrowthThe Elasticity and Vibrational Modes of Percolating Networks and Other Fractal StructuresKinetics of Red Blood Cell Aggregation: An Example of Geometric PolymerizationIntrinsic Properties of Percolation Clusters and Branched PolymersBiased Diffusion on Randomly Grown Percolating ClustersNonlinear Response and Metastability of Coulomb Systems Near the Percolation ThresholdThe Structure and Fractal Dimension of Generalized DiffusionFrequency Spectrum of an Elastic Sierpinski GasketParticle Deposition on a Filter MediumGrowth of Clusters During Imbibition in a Network of CapillariesExperimental Measurements of the Kinetic Evolution of Cluster Size Distributions with Applications to the Fractal Structure of Antigen-Antibody ClustersExperimental Analysis of Diffusion Controlled Coagulation Using an Optical Pulse Particle Size AnalyzerAggregation Kinetics via Smoluchowskfs EquationCritical Exponents in the Smoluchowski Equations of CoagulationKinetics of Reversible Clustering and BranchingKinetics of Phase Separation in Mixtures of Linear and Branched PolymersImhomogeneity in GelationRelationship Between the Kinetic and Statistical Approaches to F-Functional PolycondensationSmoluchowski's Equation with Surface Interaction and Exponents in the Cluster Size DistributionLight Scattering Studies of Nucleation of PolypropyleneGlassy Rigidification Phenomena: Is There a Unified Picture Emerging?Diffusion and Conductivity Exponents not Based on the Alexander-Orbach ConjectureIrreversible Self-Avoiding WalksFractal Geometries in Decay ModelsDrift and Diffusion in a Hopping Model with Strong DisorderCorrections to Scaling in Cluster Statistics Problems: An Overview of Recent ResultsCluster Statistics and Scaling in a Regular Model of Diffusion-Controlled DepositionExact RNG For Disordered Diffusive Systems and FluidsFibrin Aggregates: Fractal Objects with D=1Perspectives in The Kinetics of Aggregation and GelationAuthor IndexSubject Index
