Polydispersity in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures
Polydispersity in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 11th April 2011
- Speaker: Siobhan Liddle (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Size polydispersity in colloidal systems is often treated as a problem to be minimized. It is known that in highly polydisperse systems, crystallisation in colloidal suspensions is suppressed and with low colloid polydispersity, the colloid-polymer mixtures display the same phase behaviour as the in the monodisperse case. I will talk about some recent experimental work on colloid-polymer mixtures using colloids with a polydispersity of 6% and the effect this polydispersity has on the phase diagram.
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