Bulk and interfacial properties in colloid-polymer mixtures

RLC Vink, A Jusufi, J Dzubiella, CN Likos - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2005 - APS
Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of a phase-separating colloid-polymer mixture are
performed and compared to recent experiments. The approach is based on effective …

Entropic wetting of a colloidal rod-sphere mixture

R Roth, JM Brader, M Schmidt - Europhysics Letters, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the behavior of a model colloidal mixture of hard spheres and rod-like
particles near a planar hard wall using density functional theory. For small size ratios of rod …

Wetting Behavior in Colloid− Polymer Mixtures at Different Substrates

WK Wijting, NAM Besseling… - The Journal of Physical …, 2003 - ACS Publications
We present experimental observations on wetting phenomena in depletion interaction
driven, phase separated colloidal dispersions. The contact angle of the colloidal liquid− gas …

Rigid sphere transport through a colloidal gas–liquid interface

JWJ De Folter, VWA De Villeneuve… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we report on the gravity-driven transport of rigid spheres of various sizes
through the fluid–fluid interface of a demixed colloid–polymer mixture. Three consecutive …

The interface in demixed colloid–polymer systems: wetting, waves and droplets

DGAL Aarts - Soft Matter, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Phase transitions in colloid–polymer mixtures have attracted a large amount of attention
over the last 20 years (WCK Poon, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 2002, 14, R859; R. Tuinier, J …

Colloid-polymer mixtures under slit confinement

A Pérez-Ramírez, S Figueroa-Gerstenmaier… - The Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We report a NVT molecular dynamic study of colloid-polymer mixtures under slit
confinement. For this purpose, we are employing the Asakura-Oosawa model for studying …

Laser-induced condensation in colloid—polymer mixtures

IO Götze, JM Brader, M Schmidt, H Löwen - Molecular Physics, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We study a mixture of hard sphere colloidal particles and non-adsorbing polymers exposed
to a plane wave external potential which represents a three-dimensional standing laser field …

Microrheology close to an equilibrium phase transition

J Reinhardt, A Scacchi, JM Brader - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the microstructural and microrheological response to a tracer particle of a two-
dimensional colloidal suspension under thermodynamic conditions close to a liquid-gas …

Wall tensions of model colloid–polymer mixtures

PPF Wessels, M Schmidt, H Löwen - Journal of Physics …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Using the Asakura–Oosawa–Vrij model for mixtures of hard sphere colloids and
non-adsorbing polymer coils, an analytic formula for the interfacial free energy of the fluid …

Theoretical study of the three-phase contact line and its tension in adsorbed colloid-polymer mixtures

Y Vandecan, JO Indekeu - The Journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We perform a theoretical study of the three-phase contact line and the line tension in an
adsorbed colloid-polymer mixture near a first-order wetting transition, employing an interface …