Phase behavior of colloidal rod-sphere mixtures
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Density functional theory for colloidal rod-sphere mixtures.
We present a density functional theory for a model colloidal mixture of hard spheres and infinitely thin hard rods. For these freely rotating particles, we use a fundamental measures approach to obtain a functional that features the correct dimensional crossover and the exact low density limit. For isotropic bulk fluid mixtures, the free energy, and hence the demixing phase diagram, are identic...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.479713