Phase behaviour of binary mixtures of diamagnetic colloidal platelets in an external magnetic field

Details Phase behaviour of binary mixtures of diamagnetic colloidal platelets in an external magnetic field Phase behaviour of binary mixtures of diamagnetic colloidal platelets in an external magnetic field

2011-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/1104.3957v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, to appear in J.Phys:Condensed Matter

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Using fundamental measure density functional theory we investigate paranematic-nematic and nematic-nematic phase coexistence in binary mixtures of circular platelets with vanishing thicknesses. An external magnetic field induces uniaxial alignment and acts on the platelets with a strength that is taken to scale with the platelet area. At particle diameter ratio lambda=1.5 the system displays paranematic-nematic coexistence. For lambda=2, demixing into two nematic states with different compositions also occurs, between an upper critical point and a paranematic-nematic-nematic triple point. Increasing the field strength leads to shrinking of the coexistence regions. At high enough field strength a closed loop of immiscibility is induced and phase coexistence vanishes at a double critical point above which the system is homogeneously nematic. For lambda=2.5, besides paranematic-nematic coexistence, there is nematic-nematic coexistence which persists and hence does not end in a critical point. The partial orientational order parameters along the binodals vary strongly with composition and connect smoothly for each species when closed loops of immiscibility are present in the corresponding phase diagram.

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