Interfacial tension and nucleation in mixtures of colloids and long ideal polymer coils

Details Interfacial tension and nucleation in mixtures of colloids and long ideal polymer coils Interfacial tension and nucleation in mixtures of colloids and long ideal polymer coils

2002-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202440v2

Physical Review E 65, 062401 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages (v2 includes discussion of the scaling of the interfacial tension along the coexistence curve and its relation to the

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.65.062401

Mixtures of ideal polymers with hard spheres whose diameters are smaller than the radius of gyration of the polymer, exhibit extensive immiscibility. The interfacial tension between demixed phases of these mixtures is estimated, as is the barrier to nucleation. The barrier is found to scale linearly with the radius of the polymer, causing it to become large for large polymers. Thus for large polymers nucleation is suppressed and phase separation proceeds via spinodal decomposition, as it does in polymer blends.

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