Wetting and capillary nematization of binary hard-platelet and hard-rod fluids

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作者
Harnau, L
Dietrich, S
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Met Res, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
[2] Univ Stuttgart, Inst Theoret & Angew Phys, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 2002年 / 66卷 / 05期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevE.66.051702
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Density-functional theory is used to investigate the phase behavior of colloidal binary hard-platelet and hard-rod fluids near a single hard wall or confined in a slit pore. The Zwanzig model, in which the orientations of the particles of rectangular shape are restricted to three orthogonal orientations, is analyzed by numerical minimization of the grand potential functional. The density and orientational profiles as well as the surface contributions to the grand potential are determined. The calculations exhibit a wall-induced continuous surface transition from uniaxial to biaxial symmetry for the hard-rod fluid. Complete wetting of the wall-isotropic liquid interface by a biaxial nematic film for rods and a uniaxial nematic film for platelets is found. For the fluids confined by two parallel hard walls, we determine a first-order capillary nematization transition for large slit widths, which terminates in a capillary critical point upon decreasing the slit width.
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