Colloidal systems with a short-range attraction and long-range repulsion: Phase diagrams, structures, and dynamics

Y Liu, Y Xi - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
Colloidal systems with both a short-range attraction and long-range repulsion (SALR) have
rich phases compared with the traditional hard sphere systems or sticky hard sphere …

Recent advances in the theory and simulation of model colloidal microphase formers

Y Zhuang, P Charbonneau - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016 - ACS Publications
This mini-review synthesizes our understanding of the equilibrium behavior of particle-
based models with short-range attractive and long-range repulsive (SALR) interactions …

Generalized phase behavior of cluster formation in colloidal dispersions with competing interactions

PD Godfrin, NE Valadez-Pérez, R Castaneda-Priego… - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal liquids interacting with short range attraction and long range repulsion, such as
proposed for some protein solutions, have been found to exhibit novel states consisting of …

Cluster formation in fluids with competing short-range and long-range interactions

MB Sweatman, R Fartaria, L Lue - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the low density behaviour of fluids that interact through a short-ranged
attraction together with a long-ranged repulsion (SALR potential) by developing a molecular …

Intermediate range order and structure in colloidal dispersions with competing interactions

PD Godfrin, R Castañeda-Priego, Y Liu… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Colloidal dispersions with a short-range attraction and long-range repulsion can exhibit an
intriguing intermediate range order, manifested in scattering experiments as a low-q peak in …

Microphase versus macrophase separation in the square-well-linear fluid: A theoretical and computational study

D Costa, G Munaò, JM Bomont, G Malescio, A Palatella… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Due to the presence of competing interactions, the square-well-linear fluid can exhibit either
liquid-vapor equilibrium (macrophase separation) or clustering (microphase separation) …

Competition between clustering and phase separation in binary mixtures containing SALR particles

G Munaò, D Costa, G Malescio, JM Bomont… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate by Monte Carlo simulations a mixture of particles with competing interactions
(hard-sphere two-Yukawa, HSTY) and hard spheres (HS), with same diameters σ and a …

Thermodynamics, static properties and transport behaviour of fluids with competing interactions

R Perdomo-Pérez, J Martínez-Rivera… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Competing interaction fluids have become ideal model systems to study a large number of
phenomena, for example, the formation of intermediate range order structures, condensed …

Origin and detection of microstructural clustering in fluids with spatial-range competitive interactions

RB Jadrich, JA Bollinger, KP Johnston, TM Truskett - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
Fluids with competing short-range attractions and long-range repulsions mimic dispersions
of charge-stabilized colloids that can display equilibrium structures with intermediate-range …

[HTML][HTML] Fluids with competing interactions. I. Decoding the structure factor to detect and characterize self-limited clustering

JA Bollinger, TM Truskett - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We use liquid state theory and computer simulations to gain insights into the shape of the
structure factor for fluids of particles interacting via a combination of short-range attractions …