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Mixtures of anisotropic and spherical colloids: Phase behavior, confinement, percolation phenomena and kinetics
Schilling, Tanja; Dorosz, Sven; Radu, Marc et al.
2013In European Physical Journal. Special Topics, p. 222
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Abstract :
[en] Purely entropic systems such as suspensions of hard rods, platelets and spheres show rich phase behavior. Rods and platelets have successfully been used as models to predict the equilibrium properties of liquid crystals for several decades. Over the past years hard particle models have also been studied in the context of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, in particular regarding the glass transition, jamming, sedimentation and crystallization. Recently suspensions of hard anisotropic particles also moved into the focus of materials scientists who work on conducting soft matter composites. An insulating polymer resin that is mixed with conductive filler particles becomes conductive when the filler percolates. In this context the mathematical topic of connectivity percolation finds an application in modern nano-technology. In this article, we briefly review recent work on the phase behavior, confinement effects, percolation transition and phase transition kinetics in hard particle models. In the first part, we discuss the effects that particle anisotropy and depletion have on the percolation transition. In the second part, we present results on the kinetics of the liquid-to-crystal transition in suspensions of spheres and of ellipsoids.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Schilling, Tanja ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
Dorosz, Sven ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
Radu, Marc ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
Mathew, M.;  Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz > KOMET Institut für Physik
Binder, K.;  Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz > KOMET Institut für Physik
Language :
English
Title :
Mixtures of anisotropic and spherical colloids: Phase behavior, confinement, percolation phenomena and kinetics
Publication date :
November 2013
Journal title :
European Physical Journal. Special Topics
ISSN :
1951-6401
Publisher :
EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France
Pages :
222
Peer reviewed :
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