Ordering entropy

Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker () and Alain Stroobants
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Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker: the Van't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloidal Chemistry, Debye Institute, Utrecht University
Alain Stroobants: the Van't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloidal Chemistry, Debye Institute, Utrecht University

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6683, 305-307

Abstract: Rich and subtle phase behaviour has emerged from new work with colloidal systems. Depending on experimental conditions, mixtures of colloidal rods and spheres may separate into rod-rich or rod-poor phases, or alternating layers of rods and spheres. One might infer that the particle interactions concerned are highly complex, but in fact the rods and spheres simply interact as ‘hard’ particles. Counterintuitively, it seems that entropy is the ordering force.

Date: 1998
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