화학공학소재연구정보센터
Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, Vol.13, No.4, 245-248, 1996
Effects of monomer size distribution on the fractal dimensionality of diffusion-limited aggregates
Computer simulations of diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) for monomers to investigate the effects of size and of lognormal distribution on the fractal dimensionality of the aggregates were conducted on a two-dimensional lattice. The results show that DLA clusters possess multifractal characteristics. For clusters consisting of monodisperse monomers, the bifurcation point on the graph of the pair correlation function (PCF) for each cluster is located right at the monomer size under investigation. The textural dimension (D-f1) has a stable value of about 1.65, whereas the structural dimension (D-f2) decreased with increase in monomer size. For the cases with monomers in log-normal distributions, the textural dimension is around 1.67; however, the structural dimension decreases with increasing polydispersity of monomer size.