Entropy-driven phase transitions

Daan Frenkel

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 263, issue 1, 26-38

Abstract: Increase in visible order can be associated with an increase in microscopic disorder. This phenomenon leads to many counter-intuitive phenomena such as entropy driven crystallization and phase separation. I devote special attention to the entropic depletion interaction as a means to tune the range of attraction between colloids. The range of the intermolecular potential determines whether or not stable liquid-vapor coexistence is possible. For short range attraction, the liquid-vapor transition may be located below the sublimation line. Under those conditions, meta-stable critical fluctuations may enhance the rate of crystal nucleation

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00501-9

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