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Hypotheses: The aggregation number and length of spherocylindrical (rodlike, wormlike) micelles in solutions of an ionic surfactant and salt can be predicted knowing the molecular parameters and the input concentrations of the species. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-20 K. D. Danov , P. A. Kralchevsky , R. D. Stanimirova , S. D. Stoyanov , J. L. Cook , I. P. Stott

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) leads to cohesive active matter in the absence of cohesive forces. We present, extend and illustrate a recent generalized thermodynamic formalism which accounts for its binodal curve. Using this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-11 Alexandre P. Solon , Joakim Stenhammar , Michael E. Cates , Yariv Kafri , Julien Tailleur

We examine phase separation in aqueous mixtures at fixed amounts of hydrophilic monovalent ions. When water is the minority component, preferential solvation can stabilize water domains enriched with ions. This ion-induced precipitation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-22 Ryuichi Okamoto , Akira Onuki

We investigate the aggregation of amphiphilic molecules by adapting the two-state Muller-Lee-Graziano model for water, in which a solvent-induced hydrophobic interaction is included implicitly. We study the formation of various types of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Moelbert , B. Normand , P. De Los Rios

Dislocation-assisted phase separation processes in binary systems subjected to irradiation effect are studied analytically and numerically. Irradiation is described by athermal atomic mixing in the form of ballistic flux with spatially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. O. Kharchenko , O. M. Schokotova , A. I. Bashtova , I. O. Lysenko

Phase separation is the thermodynamic process that explains how droplets form in multicomponent fluids. These droplets can provide controlled compartments to localize chemical reactions, and reactions can also affect the droplets' dynamics.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-02 David Zwicker

This study examines the phase transitions occurring during linear heating of the Zr15Nb alloy through a comprehensive, multi-technique methodology comprising in-situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction (HEXRD), electrical resistance…

We study analytically the intricate phase behavior of cross-linked $AB$ diblock copolymer melts, which can undergo two main phase transitions due to quenched random constraints: Gelation, i.e., spatially random localization of polymers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-10 Alice von der Heydt , Annette Zippelius

We use direct numerical simulations to investigate the interaction between the temperature field of a fluid and the temperature of small particles suspended in the flow, employing both one and two-way thermal coupling, in a statistically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Maurizio Carbone , Andrew D. Bragg , Michele Iovieno

The average and local structures of the (PbTe)1-x(PbS)x system of thermoelectric materials has been studied using the Rietveld and atomic pair distribution function (PDF) methods. Samples with 0:25 < x are macroscopically phase separated.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Lin , E. S. Bozin , S. J. L. Billinge , J. Androulakis , C. H. Lin , M. G. Kanatzidis

Demixing of binary liquids is a ubiquitous transition, which is explained using a well-established thermodynamic formalism that requires equality of intensive thermodynamics parameters across the phase boundaries. Demixing transitions also…

Thermal convection of fluid is a more efficient way than diffusion to carry heat from hot sources to cold places. Here, we experimentally study the Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of aqueous glycerol solution in a cubic cell with suspensions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-14 Shi-Yuan Hu , Kai-Zhe Wang , Lai-Bing Jia , Jin-Qiang Zhong , Jun Zhang

Phase-matched nonlinear processes exhibit a tradeoff between the conversion efficiency and the acceptance bandwidth. Adiabatic nonlinear processes, in which the phase mismatch varies slowly along the interaction length, enable us to…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-20 Eyal Rozenberg , Ady Arie

Phase separation of two phase separating solutes in a common solvent can result in mesoscale (micron-sized) droplets with complex topologies of the domains of each solute within each droplet. Such topologies have been observed in-vitro in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-31 Amit Kumar , Gary H. Karpen , Samuel A. Safran

Ethanol is a common protein crystallization agent, precipitant, and denaturant, but also alters the dielectric properties of solutions. While ethanol-induced unfolding is largely ascribed to its hydrophobic parts, its effect on protein…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-03 Jan Hansen , Rajeevann Uthayakumar , Jan Skov Pedersen , Stefan U. Egelhaaf , Florian Platten

Phase separation, crucial for spatially segregating biomolecules in cells, is well-understood in the simple case of a few components with pairwise interactions. Yet, biological cells challenge the simple picture in at least two ways: First,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-12 Chengjie Luo , Yicheng Qiang , David Zwicker

This paper extends our earlier studies of free energy functions of density and crystalline order parameters for models of supercooled water, which allows us to examine the possibility of two distinct metastable liquid phases [J. Chem. Phys.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 David T. Limmer , David Chandler

The newly discovered BaPt$_2$As$_2$ shows a structural distortion at around 275~K, followed by the emergence of superconductivity at lower temperatures. Here we identify the presence of charge density wave (CDW) order at room temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-18 C. Y. Guo , W. B. Jiang , M. Smidman , F. Han , C. D. Malliakas , B. Shen , Y. F. Wang , Y. Chen , X. Lu , M. G. Kanatzidis , H. Q. Yuan

The liquid crystalline 11OS5 compound, forming the nematic phase and a few smectic phases, is investigated by broadband dielectric spectroscopy and infra-red spectroscopy. The dielectric relaxation times, ionic conductivity, and positions…

Recent developments in the synthesis of colloidal particles allow for control over shape and inter-particle interaction. One example, among others, is the so-called "Mickey Mouse" (MM) particle for which the self-assembly properties have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-16 Guido Avvisati , Marjolein Dijkstra