Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2005-10-07
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
11 pages, 6 figures, accepted in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter as symposium paper for the 6th Liquid Matter Conference in Utrecht
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/17/45/055
We investigate the kinetics of phase separation for a mixture of rodlike viruses (fd) and polymer (dextran), which effectively constitutes a system of attractive rods. This dispersion is quenched from a flow-induced fully nematic state into the region where the nematic and the isotropic phase coexist. We show experimental evidence that the kinetic pathway depends on the overall concentration. When the quench is made at high concentrations, the system is meta-stable and we observe typical nucleation-and-growth. For quenches at low concentration the system is unstable and the system undergoes a spinodal decomposition. At intermediate concentrations we see the transition between both demixing processes, where we locate the spinodal point.
Derks Didi
Dhont Jan K. G.
Imhof Arnout
Kang Kyongok
Lettinga Paul M.
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