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

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

2002-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207051v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.051702

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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