Confinement effects on phase behavior of soft matter systems

K Binder, J Horbach, R Vink, A De Virgiliis - Soft Matter, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
When systems that can undergo phase separation between two coexisting phases in the
bulk are confined in thin film geometry between parallel walls, the phase behavior can be …

Analytical phase diagrams for colloids and non-adsorbing polymer

GJ Fleer, R Tuinier - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2008 - Elsevier
We review the free-volume theory (FVT) of Lekkerkerker et al.[Europhys. Lett. 20 (1992) 559]
for the phase behavior of colloids in the presence of non-adsorbing polymer and we extend …

Polymers at interfaces and the interactions in colloidal dispersions

A Vrij - Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1976 - degruyter.com
Solutions of different polymers in the same solvent are incompatible as a rule and show
phase separation when they are mixed. H incompatibility is also to be observed in systems …

Phase diagram of patchy colloids: Towards empty liquids

E Bianchi, J Largo, P Tartaglia, E Zaccarelli… - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We report theoretical and numerical evaluations of the phase diagram for patchy colloidal
particles of new generation. We show that the reduction of the number of bonded nearest …

The Asakura–Oosawa theory: Entropic forces in physics, biology, and soft matter

K Miyazaki, KS Schweizer, D Thirumalai… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In 1954, Asakura and Oosawa 1 explained that nonadsorbing macromolecules can induce
attractive forces between colloidal particles in a single page paper in this journal. The …

Perspective: The Asakura Oosawa model: A colloid prototype for bulk and interfacial phase behavior

K Binder, P Virnau, A Statt - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
In many colloidal suspensions, the micrometer-sized particles behave like hard spheres, but
when non-adsorbing polymers are added to the solution a depletion attraction (of entropic …

Machine learning many-body potentials for colloidal systems

G Campos-Villalobos, E Boattini, L Filion… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Simulations of colloidal suspensions consisting of mesoscopic particles and smaller species
such as ions or depletants are computationally challenging as different length and time …

Effect of many-body interactions on the bulk and interfacial phase behavior of a model colloid-polymer mixture

M Dijkstra, R van Roij, R Roth, A Fortini - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2006 - APS
We study a model suspension of sterically stabilized colloidal particles and nonadsorbing
ideal polymer coils, both in bulk and adsorbed against a planar hard wall. By integrating out …

Capillary waves in a colloid-polymer interface

RLC Vink, J Horbach, K Binder - The Journal of chemical physics, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The structure and the statistical fluctuations of interfaces between coexisting phases in the
Asakura–Oosawa model [J. Chem. Phys. 22, 1255 (1954)] for a colloid-polymer mixture are …

Droplet coalescence: drainage, film rupture and neck growth in ultralow interfacial tension systems

DGAL Aarts, HNW Lekkerkerker - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2008 - cambridge.org
We study the coalescence of a drop with its bulk phase in fluid–fluid demixing colloid–
polymer mixtures. Such mixtures show behaviour analogous to molecular fluid–fluid …