“…It leads to different equilibrium states depending on the volume fraction (φ) of the particles and the strength of the interaction energy (u). Weak attraction results in the formation of transient aggregates at low φ and a transient percolating network at high φ, while strong attraction may drive phase separation into a high and a low density liquid [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31]. The strength of the interaction and thus the equilibrium properties are determined by the ratio of the bond formation (α) and the bond breaking (β) probability [32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45], while the kinetics of such systems depend on the absolute values of α and β.…”