Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-07-30
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
9 pages, 10 figures, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. in press (2010)
Scientific paper
10.1039/c0cp00504e
We perform numerical simulations of a simple model of one-patch colloidal particles to investigate: (i) the behavior of the gas-liquid phase diagram on moving from a spherical attractive potential to a Janus potential and (ii) the collective structure of a system of Janus particles. We show that, for the case where one of the two hemispheres is attractive and one is repulsive, the system organizes into a dispersion of orientational ordered micelles and vesicles and, at low $T$, the system can be approximated as a fluid of such clusters, interacting essentially via excluded volume. The stability of this cluster phase generates a very peculiar shape of the gas and liquid coexisting densities, with a gas coexistence density which increases on cooling, approaching the liquid coexistence density at very low $T$.
Giacometti Achille
Pastore Giorgio
Sciortino Francesco
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