Colloid polymer mixtures exhibit vapor-liquid like and liquid-solid like phase transitions in bulk suspensions, and are well-suited model systems to explore confinement effects on these phase transitions. Static aspects of these phenomena are studied by large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, including novel “ensemble switch” methods to estimate excess free energies due to confining walls. The kinetics of phase separation is investigated by a Molecular Dynamics method, where hydrodynamic effects due to the solvent are included via the multiparticle collision dynamics method.
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Statt, A., Winkler, A., Virnau, P., & Binder, K. (2013). Phase separation of colloid polymer mixtures under confinement. In High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’13: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2013 (pp. 19–32). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02165-2_2
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