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Phase separation in mixtures of colloids and long ideal polymer coils
Richard P. Sear
Colloidal suspensions with free polymer coils which are larger than the colloidal particles are considered. The polymer-colloid interaction is modeled by an extension of the Asakur…
What do emulsification failure and Bose-Einstein condensation have in common?
R. P. Sear, J. A. Cuesta
Ideal bosons and classical ring polymers formed via self-assembly, are known to have the same partition function, and so analogous phase transitions. In ring polymers, the analogue…
Nucleation of a non-critical phase in a fluid near a critical point
Richard P. Sear
Phase diagrams of some globular proteins have a fluid-fluid transition as well as a fluid-crystal transition. Homogeneous nucleation of the crystal from the fluid phase near the cr…
Phase equilibria in the polydisperse Zwanzig model of hard rods
Nigel Clarke, Jose A Cuesta, Richard Sear +2
We study the phase behaviour of the Zwanzig model of suspensions of hard rods, allowing for polydispersity in the lengths of the rods. In spite of the simplified nature of the mode…
Molecular dynamics of a dense fluid of polydisperse hard spheres
Richard P. Sear
Slow dynamics in a fluid are studied in one of the most basic systems possible: polydisperse hard spheres. Monodisperse hard spheres cannot be studied as the slow down in dynamics…