Gelation of Colloidal Silica
- 15 December 1986
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (24), 3117-3120
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.3117
Abstract
Classical light-scattering studies of colloidal silica gels show that they have a fractal structure for length scales shorter than a concentration-dependent crossover length ξ, and behave like a collection of nearly randomly distributed scattering centers for length scales greater than ξ. Our data show that ξ has a power-law concentration dependence, ξ∝c−1.17±0.1.Keywords
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