Free-volume theory of the freezing of polydisperse hard-sphere mixtures: Initial preparation, fractionation, and terminal polydispersity

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 5045-5052

  Xu, H ^a   Baus, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DISPERSIONS; FRACTIONATION; FREEZING; MIXTURES; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PHASE SEPARATION;

FREE-VOLUME APPROXIMATION; HARD-SPHERE MIXTURES; POLYDISPERSE; TERMINAL POLYDISPERSITY;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 0037444717     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1553760     Document Type: Article

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