Phase stability of colloidal spheres mixed with supramolecular rod?like polymers

Mixtures of colloids and supramolecular polymers exhibit stimuli-responsive phase behavior. In previous work (Peters Tuinier, Physica A 510, 233 [2018]) the were treated as fully flexible chains, while in experimental systems may have a certain degree stiffness. Here we predict that for stiff rod-like separation can occur at much lower polymer concentrations than polymers. Additionally, it is demonstrated colloid–polymer interactions significantly influence equilibrium size distribution, however this does not strongly affect behavior mixture. At low which system already gets unstable, effect excluded volume between chains themselves small. Finally, an predicted variety re-entrant transitions be observed within realistic temperature range illustrated by specific example.