Observation of isotropic–isotropic demixing in colloidal platelet–sphere mixtures1. Issue 28 (28th July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Mingfeng; Li, Huawei; Chen, Ying; Mejia, Andres F.; Wang, Xuezhen; Cheng, Zhengdong
• Is Part Of: Soft matter. Volume 11:Issue 28(2015)
• Page Start: 5775
• Page End: 5779
• Publication Date: 2015-07-28
• Subjects: Soft condensed matter -- Periodicals; 530.413
• DOI: 10.1039/c5sm00615e
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-683X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="toc"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p> <graphic position="anchor" id="ga" xlink:href="ark:/27927/pgj26b7dqtr" xlink:type="simple" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" />Direct experimental evidence of I₁-I₂ demixing is presented at size ratio <italic>q</italic> = <italic>R</italic>_sphere/<italic>R</italic>_disk = 0.0901 ± 0.0004 in colloidal platelet and sphere mixtures, which validates the free-volume scaled particle theory and indicates the need for refinement of the fundamental measure density functional theory.</p> </abstract>