Temperature (de)activated patchy colloidal particles

Abstract

We present a new model of patchy particles in which the interaction sites can be activated or deactivated by varying the temperature of the system. We study the thermodynamics of the system by means of Wertheim's first order perturbation theory, and use Flory-Stockmayer theory of polymerization to analyse the percolation threshold. We find a very rich phase behaviour including lower critical points and reentrant percolation.

6 pages, 5 figures. Accepted in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

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