Posted on Apr 30, 2004

Jay
Newman, the R.
Gordon Gould Professor of Physics, has co-authored an article in the April
issue of Physical Review, “Ordering
of  agarose
near the macroscopic gelation point.” Written with
Italian colleagues at the National Research Council, the article reports on the
spatial structure and formation of agarose gels as
studied by laser light scattering. A fractal aggregate
model is developed that describes the formation of the gels under a variety of
conditions. The work was completed last spring while Newman led a Union term in
Sicily with 13 students who
worked on research projects and studied at the NRC in Palermo.