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Gelling by Heating
We introduce a simple model, a binary mixture of patchy particles, which has
been designed to form a gel upon heating. Due to the specific nature of the
particle interactions, notably the number and geometry of the patches as well
as their interaction energies, the system is a fluid both at high and at low
temperatures, whereas at intermediate temperatures the system forms a
solid-like disordered open network structure, i.e. a gel. Using molecular
dynamics we investigate the static and dynamic properties of this system