FIRST ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS, WHEN AND FROM WHERE DO THEY EMERGE? —THE CASE OF GELS

Author:

SEKIMOTO KEN1

Affiliation:

1. Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606–01, Japan

Abstract

We briefly review the recent theoretical understanding of the first order phase transition undergone by gels with an emphasis on physical concepts, deliberately excluding details of modeling and analytic methods. The density of a gel changes discontinuously at the transition point. A variety of features of the transition result from the basic fact that the inhomogeneity of the density of the gel inevitably causes shear deformation. This deformation, on the one hand, reflects the geometry of the sample and, on the other hand, may alter the transition temperature.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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