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Phase Behaviour of Colloid + Polymer Mixtures

Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 1992 · Vol. 20(6) · pp. 559–564

H. N. W. Lekkerkerker✉Wilson C. K. Poon(University of Edinburgh)P. N. Pusey(University of Edinburgh)A. StroobantsPatrick B. Warren(Unilever (United Kingdom))

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Abstract

A new treatment of the phase behaviour of a colloid + nonadsorbing polymer mixture is described. The calculated phase diagrams show marked polymer partitioning between coexisting phases, an effect not considered in the usual effective-potential approaches to this problem. We also predict that under certain conditions an area of three-phase coexistence should appear in the phase diagram.

Material Dynamics and Properties Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions Pickering emulsions and particle stabilizationColloidPhase diagramPolymerPhase (matter)Materials scienceThermodynamicsChemical physicsChemistryPhysicsPhysical chemistry

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