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Phase Behavior of a Family of Truncated Hard Cubes
Anjan P. Gantapara, Joost de Graaf, René van Roij +1
In continuation of our work in [A.P. Gantapara et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 015501 (2013)], we investigate here the thermodynamic phase behavior of a family of truncated hard cube…
Cholesterics of colloidal helices: Predicting the macroscopic pitch from the particle shape and thermodynamic state
Simone Dussi, Simone Belli, René van Roij +1
Building a general theoretical framework to describe the microscopic origin of macroscopic chirality in (colloidal) liquid crystals is a long-standing challenge. Here, we combine c…
Fundamental measure theory for the electric double layer: implications for blue-energy harvesting and water desalination
Andreas Härtel, Mathijs Janssen, Sela Samin +1
Capacitive mixing (CAPMIX) and capacitive deionization (CDI) are promising candidates for harvesting clean, renewable energy and for the energy efficient production of potable wate…
Effective charges and virial pressure of concentrated macroion solutions
Niels Boon, Guillermo Ivan Guerrero-Garcia, Rene van Roij +1
The stability of colloidal suspensions is crucial in a wide variety of processes including the fabrication of photonic materials and scaffolds for biological assemblies. The ionic…
Boosting capacitive blue-energy and desalination devices with waste heat
Mathijs Janssen, Andreas Härtel, René van Roij
We show that sustainably harvesting 'blue' energy from the spontaneous mixing process of fresh and salty water can be boosted by varying the water temperature during a capacitive m…
Density Functional Theory for Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals
S. Belli, S. Dussi, M. Dijkstra +1
Even though chiral nematic phases were the first liquid crystals experimentally observed more than a century ago, the origin of the thermodynamic stability of cholesteric states is…