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Exclusion of Spherical Particles from the Nematic Phase of Reversibly Assembled Rod-Like Particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Thomas L. Madden  and
Judith Herzfeld
Thomas L. Madden
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110
Judith Herzfeld
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110
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Abstract

The open-ended aggregation of amphiphilic molecules in aqueous solution generates a broadly polydisperse population of elongated particles that form a variety of partially ordered phases. Herzfeld and coworkers have shown that the phase behavior of these binary systems is well described by self-consistently combining scaled-particle theory for the effects of excluded volume in fluid dimensions, a simple cell model for the effects of excluded volume in positionally ordered dimensions, a mean-field treatment of soft-interactions, and a phenomenological model of aggregate formation. We have now extended this model to ternary systems. We find that the addition of spherical particles to a solution of rod-forming particles induces a very wide isotropic-nematic coexistence region in which a relatively dilute isotropic solution with little aggregation separates from a rather concentrated nematic solution that almost completely excludes the spherical solutes. The magnitude of this effect depends on the relative diameters of the two solutes.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 248: Symposium O – Complex Fluids , 1991 , 95
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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