From capillary condensation to interface localization transitions in colloid-polymer mixtures confined in thin-film geometry

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  De Virgiliis, Andres ^a,b   Vink, Richard L C ^c   Horbach, Jürgen ^d   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FISICOQUÍMICAS TEÓRICAS Y APLICADAS INIFTA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; CONDENSATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; ISING MODEL; ISOMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SEPARATION; THICK FILMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

BULK SYSTEMS; CAPILLARY CONDENSATIONS; CAPILLARY WAVE FLUCTUATIONS; COEXISTING; COLLOID DIAMETERS; COLLOID INTERACTIONS; COLLOID SIZES; CONFINING WALLS; CRITICAL BEHAVIORS; CROSS-OVER; CURRENT THEORIES; FILM GEOMETRIES; FINITE SIZES; GRAND CANONICAL MONTE-CARLO; INTERFACE LOCALIZATIONS; INTERFACIAL FLUCTUATIONS; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; POLYMER DENSITY PROFILES; POLYMER MIXTURES; RICH PHASES; SCALING; THIN-FILMS; UNIVERSALITY CLASSES;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 54949100437     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041604     Document Type: Article

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