Phase Behavior of the Patchy Colloids Confined in the Patchy Porous Media

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Main Authors: Kalyuzhnyi, Yurij V., Patsahan, Taras, Holovko, Myroslav, Cummings, Peter T.
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Published: 2023
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author Kalyuzhnyi, Yurij V.
Patsahan, Taras
Holovko, Myroslav
Cummings, Peter T.
author_facet Kalyuzhnyi, Yurij V.
Patsahan, Taras
Holovko, Myroslav
Cummings, Peter T.
contents A simple model for functionalized disordered porous media is proposed and the effects of confinement on self-association, percolation and phase behavior of a fluid of patchy particles are studied. The media is formed by a randomly distributed hard-sphere obstacles fixed in space and decorated by a certain number of off-center square-well sites. The properties of the fluid of patchy particles, represented by the fluid of hard spheres each bearing a set of the off-center square-well sites, are studied using an appropriate combination of the scaled particle theory for the porous media, Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory, and the Flory-Stockmayer theory. To assess the accuracy of the theory a set of computer simulations have been performed. In general, predictions of the theory appear to be in a good agreement with computer simulation results. Confinement and competition between the formation of bonds connecting the fluid particles, and connecting fluid particles and obstacles of the matrix, give rise to a re-entrant phase behavior with three critical points and two separate regions of the liquid-gas phase coexistence.
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spellingShingle Phase Behavior of the Patchy Colloids Confined in the Patchy Porous Media
Kalyuzhnyi, Yurij V.
Patsahan, Taras
Holovko, Myroslav
Cummings, Peter T.
Soft Condensed Matter
A simple model for functionalized disordered porous media is proposed and the effects of confinement on self-association, percolation and phase behavior of a fluid of patchy particles are studied. The media is formed by a randomly distributed hard-sphere obstacles fixed in space and decorated by a certain number of off-center square-well sites. The properties of the fluid of patchy particles, represented by the fluid of hard spheres each bearing a set of the off-center square-well sites, are studied using an appropriate combination of the scaled particle theory for the porous media, Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory, and the Flory-Stockmayer theory. To assess the accuracy of the theory a set of computer simulations have been performed. In general, predictions of the theory appear to be in a good agreement with computer simulation results. Confinement and competition between the formation of bonds connecting the fluid particles, and connecting fluid particles and obstacles of the matrix, give rise to a re-entrant phase behavior with three critical points and two separate regions of the liquid-gas phase coexistence.
title Phase Behavior of the Patchy Colloids Confined in the Patchy Porous Media
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14866