Liquid crystalline phases and demixing in binary mixtures of shape-anisometric colloids
Soft Condensed Matter
2011-05-31 v1 Materials Science
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
A theoretical model of shape-anisometric particles embedded in a cubic lattice is formulated for binary mixtures combining rod-like, plate-like and spherical particles. The model aims at providing a tool for the prediction and interpretation of complex phase behavior in a variety of liquid crystalline colloids, biological and macromolecular systems. Introducing just repulsive interactions among the particles, a rich variety of phase structures and multiphasic equilibria is obtained, including isotropic, nematic, lamellar and columnar phases, demixing into phases of the same or different symmetries and structural microsegregation of the different species of the mixture within the same phase.
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@article{arxiv.1005.5549,
title = {Liquid crystalline phases and demixing in binary mixtures of shape-anisometric colloids},
author = {Stavros Peroukidis and Alexandros G. Vanakaras and Demetri J. Photinos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.5549},
year = {2011}
}