Modeling the phase behavior of polydisperse rigid rods with attractive interactions, with applications to SWNTs in superacids
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The phase behavior of rodlike molecules with polydisperse length and solventmediated attraction and repulsion is described by an extension of the Onsager the∗Current address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 79409, [email protected]
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Modeling the phase behavior of polydisperse rigid rods with attractive interactions with applications to single-walled carbon nanotubes in superacids.
The phase behavior of rodlike molecules with polydisperse length and solvent-mediated attraction and repulsion is described by an extension of the Onsager theory for rigid rods. A phenomenological square-well potential is used to model these long-range interactions, and the model is used to compute phase separation and length fractionation as a function of well depth and rod concentration. The ...
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