Fluid­-fluid demixing curves for colloid­polymer mixtures in a random colloidal matrix (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Fluid­-fluid demixing curves for colloid­polymer mixtures in a random colloidal matrix (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2012-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1080/00268976.2011.622724 (literal)
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  • Mario Alberto Annunziata (a); Andrea Pelissetto (b) (2012)
    Fluid­-fluid demixing curves for colloid­polymer mixtures in a random colloidal matrix
    in Molecular physics (Print)
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  • Mario Alberto Annunziata (a); Andrea Pelissetto (b) (literal)
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  • 2823 (literal)
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  • 2835 (literal)
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  • Special Issue: Special Issue in Honour of Luciano Reatto Molecular Physics: An International Journal at the Interface Between Chemistry and Physics (literal)
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  • a) CNR, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (Area della Ricerca di Roma Tor Vergata), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Roma, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Pisa, L.go Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma \"La Sapienza\" and INFN - Sezione di Roma I, Piazzale A. Moro 2, I-00185 Roma, Italy (literal)
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  • Fluid­-fluid demixing curves for colloid­polymer mixtures in a random colloidal matrix (literal)
Abstract
  • We study fluid-fluid phase separation in a colloid-polymer mixture adsorbed in a colloidal porous matrix close to the ? point. For this purpose we consider the Asakura-Oosawa model in the presence of a quenched matrix of colloidal hard spheres. We study the dependence of the demixing curve on the parameters that characterize the quenched matrix, fixing the polymer-to-colloid size ratio to 0.8. We find that, to a large extent, demixing curves depend only on a single parameter f, which represents the volume fraction which is unavailable to the colloids. We perform Monte Carlo simulations for volume fractions f equal to 40% and 70%, finding that the binodal curves in the polymer and colloid packing-fraction plane have a small dependence on disorder. The critical point instead changes significantly: for instance, the colloid packing fraction at criticality increases with increasing f. Finally, we observe for some values of the parameters capillary condensation of the colloids: a bulk colloid-poor phase is in chemical equilibrium with a colloid-rich phase in the matrix. (literal)
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