Abstract
The phase behavior and concentration fluctuations in suspensions of hard spheres colloids and nonadsorbing polymers under ideal solvent conditions were studied. Different qualitative behavior for the dependence on polymer/particle size asymmetry of gelation and fluid-fluid phase separation boundaries was also observed. The analysis showed that the particle-induced polymer clustering in free volume was sensitive to polymer-polymer interactions.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3350-3361 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 15 2003 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry