Critical Behavior in Gels Saturated with Binary Liquid Mixtures
- 2 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (1), 60-63
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.60
Abstract
Polyacrylamide, agarose, and silica gels have been prepared with solvents which are nearcritical binary liquid mixtures. Near the critical temperature of the free liquid mixtures, the binary-liquid gel exhibits a broad region wherein light-scattering intensity is large and varies monotonically with temperature. Some features of this scattering suggest that the gel matrix acts like a random field. Only very weak temporal fluctuations are observed throughout this broad transition region.Keywords
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