On generalization of Van der Waals approach for isotropic-nematic fluid phase equilibria of anisotropic fluids in disordered porous medium

Abstract

A generalized Van der Waals approach is developed for anisotropic fluids in disordered porous media. As the reference system a hard spherocylinder fluid in a disordered porous medium is considered and described in the framework of the scaled particle theory with the Carnahan-Starling and Parsons-Lee corrections. The attractive part of interaction is treated in the framework of the mean field approximation in which due to orientational dependence of the excluded volume of two spherocylinders, a coupling between attractive and repulsive contributions is found. We focus on spherocylinder fluids with sufficiently long particle lengths for which the nematic-nematic transition was established. It is shown that these two nematic phases have different densities and are characterized by different orientational ordering. Strong influence of the type of interparticle attraction on the phase behaviour of anisotropic fluids in disordered porous media is established. Three simple models for this purpose are considered, namely a model with the Lennard-Jones anisotropic attraction, a model with modified Lennard-Jones attraction and a model with anisotropic square-well potential. For all considered models, the phase diagram shifts to the region of lower densities and lower temperatures as the porosity decreases.

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