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Impact of granular inclusions on the phase behaviour of colloidal gels

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dc.contributor EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
dc.contributor The China Scholarships Council
dc.contributor Ness, Christopher
dc.creator Li, Yankai
dc.creator Royer, John
dc.creator Ness, Christopher
dc.creator Sun, Jin
dc.date 2023-01-18T09:12:45Z
dc.date 2023-01-18T09:12:45Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:25:08Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:25:08Z
dc.identifier Li, Yankai; Royer, John; Ness, Christopher; Sun, Jin. (2023). Impact of granular inclusions on the phase behaviour of colloidal gels, [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Engineering and School of Physics and Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/3796.
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10283/4785
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/3796
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242562
dc.description This dataset accompanies the article "Impact of granular inclusions on the phase behaviour of colloidal gels" by Li, Royer, Sun and Ness (arXiv:2207.03864, to appear in Soft Matter). It contains the raw data for generating the plots therein, as described in README.txt. The data represent measurements of the isostatic length and viscoelastic moduli of filled and unfilled colloidal gels (Figs 1a-2d); probability distributions of the colloid-colloid contact number and void volumes (Figs 2e-3b); and phase diagrams depicting the liquid-gel boundary of filled and unfilled gels (Fig 4). Colloidal gels formed from small attractive particles are commonly used in formulations to keep larger components in suspension. However, despite extensive work characterizing unfilled gels, little is known about how larger inclusions alter the phase behavior and microstructure of the colloidal system. Here we use numerical simulations to examine how larger `granular' particles can alter the gel transition phase boundaries. We find two distinct regimes depending on both the filler size and native gel structure: a `passive' regime where the filler fits into already-present voids, giving little change in the transition, and an `active' regime where the filler no longer fits in these voids and instead perturbs the native structure. In this second regime the phase boundary is controlled by an effective colloidal volume fraction given by the available free volume.
dc.description Raw data associated with each of the figures in the article "Impact of granular inclusions on the phase behaviour of colloidal gels"
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher University of Edinburgh. School of Engineering and School of Physics and Astronomy
dc.relation https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03864
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.subject Colloids
dc.subject Rheology
dc.subject Granular materials
dc.subject Soft matter
dc.title Impact of granular inclusions on the phase behaviour of colloidal gels
dc.type dataset
dc.coverage UK
dc.coverage UNITED KINGDOM


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