Structure, phase behavior and inhomogeneous fluid properties of binary dendrimer mixtures

Details Structure, phase behavior and inhomogeneous fluid properties of binary dendrimer mixtures Structure, phase behavior and inhomogeneous fluid properties of binary dendrimer mixtures

2005-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511605v1

J. Chem. Phys. 124 084901 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2172596

The effective pair potentials between different kinds of dendrimers in solution can be well approximated by appropriate Gaussian functions. We find that in binary dendrimer mixtures the range and strength of the effective interactions depend strongly upon the specific dendrimer architecture. We consider two different types of dendrimer mixtures, employing the Gaussian effective pair potentials, to determine the bulk fluid structure and phase behavior. Using a simple mean field density functional theory (DFT) we find good agreement between theory and simulation results for the bulk fluid structure. Depending on the mixture, we find bulk fluid-fluid phase separation (macro-phase separation) or micro-phase separation, i.e., a transition to a state characterized by undamped periodic concentration fluctuations. We also determine the inhomogeneous fluid structure for confinement in spherical cavities. Again, we find good agreement between the DFT and simulation results. For the dendrimer mixture exhibiting micro-phase separation, we observe rather striking pattern formation under confinement.

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