Croatica Chemica Acta, Vol. 65 No. 2, 1992.
Review article
The Application of Fractals to Colloidal Aggregation
Rémi Jullien
; Bat. 510, Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Centre d’Orsay, 91405 Orsay, France
Abstract
Recent work on understanding colloidal aggregation phenomena using fractal geometry is reviewed. After describing a typical aggregation experiment, the concepts of fractal and fractal dimension are introduced and some simple models fit to describe the mechanism of diffusion-limited aggregation leading to fractal aggregates are presented. The old Smoluchowski’s theory for describing the kinetics of colloidal aggregation is revised using fractal concepts.
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137162
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Publication date:
15.8.1992.
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