title: Kinetic glass transition in a micellar system with short-range attractive interaction
abstract: We show that percolation and structural arrest transitions coexist in different regions of the phase diagram of a copolymer-micellar system and relate them to short-range intermicellar attraction. The intermediate scattering function shows a nonergodic transition along a temperature and concentration dependent line. Analyses show a logarithmic time dependence, attributed to a higher-order glass transition singularity predicted by mode-coupling theory, followed by a power law.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Genova, Italy.
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mallamace
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gambadauro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Micali
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tartaglia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen