Fig. 1: Observation of gelation in experiments and simulations.
From: Nonequilibrium continuous phase transition in colloidal gelation with short-range attraction
a–c Experimental observation of aggregating colloidal particles interacting with critical Casimir forces at ΔT = 0.5 K. Largest connected cluster is marked in red. d Size of the largest, and second-largest cluster normalized by the maximum cluster size as a function of time. e Evolution of the normalized mean coordination number with time in experiments, and in simulations at ϵ/kBT = 4. f aggregated particles in the simulation at ϵ/kBT = 4 (late stage snapshot).
