Structure and Dynamics of Glassy-forming Fluids.

Abstract

Revealing the local order of colloidal liquids and glasses will be a breakthrough in soft matter science. Here we show first results on the structure and dynamics of a soft colloidal systems. For these systems the particle interaction can be tuned by screening the surface charge of the particles. This allows to map the phase diagram from the liquid to the glass phase even to the crystal phase.In the next step we will study the local orientational order by X-ray Cross Correlation Analysis (XCCA) as a function of the particle interactions