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Wetting behavior of a colloidal particle trapped at a composite liquid-vapor interface of a binary liquid mixture
Hyojeong Kim, Lothar Schimmele, S. Dietrich
A partially miscible binary liquid mixture, composed of A and B particles, is considered theoretically under conditions for which a stable A-rich liquid phase is in thermal equilib…
Self-motility of an active particle induced by correlations in the surrounding solution
Alvaro Domínguez, M. N. Popescu, C. M. Rohwer +1
Current models of phoretic transport rely on molecular forces creating a "diffuse" particle-fluid interface. We investigate theoretically an alternative mechanism, in which a diffu…
Fluctuations of the critical Casimir force
Markus Gross, Andrea Gambassi, S. Dietrich
The critical Casimir force (CCF) arises from confining fluctuations in a critical fluid and thus it is a fluctuating quantity itself. While the mean CCF is universal, its (static)…
The role of counterions in ionic liquid crystals
Hendrik Bartsch, Markus Bier, S. Dietrich
Previous theoretical studies of calamitic (i.e., rod-like) ionic liquid crystals (ILCs) based on an effective one-species model led to indications of a novel smectic-A phase with a…
Finite-size corrections for the static structure factor of a liquid slab with open boundaries
Felix Höfling, Siegfried Dietrich
The presence of a confining boundary can modify the local structure of a liquid markedly. In addition, small samples of finite size are known to exhibit systematic deviations of th…
Transient coarsening and the motility of optically heated Janus colloids in a binary liquid mixture
Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano, Sutapa Roy, Takeaki Araki +2
A gold-capped Janus particle suspended in a near-critical binary liquid mixture can self-propel under illumination. We have immobilized such a particle in a narrow channel and stud…