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cond-mat.soft2004★ 65 cited
Capillary bridging and long-range attractive forces in a mean-field approach
D. Andrienko, P. Patricio, O. I. Vinogradova
When a mixture is confined, one of the phases can condense out. This condensate, which is otherwise metastable in the bulk, is stabilized by the presence of surfaces. In a sphere-p…
cond-mat.soft2003★ 33 cited
Interaction of colloids with a nematic-isotropic interface
D. Andrienko, M. Tasinkevych, P. Patricio +1
The Landau-de Gennes free energy is used to calculate the interaction between long cylindrical colloids and the nematic-isotropic (NI) interface. This interaction has two contribut…