The Janus Fluid
A Theoretical Perspective
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Beschreibung
The state-of-the-art in the theoretical statistical physics treatment of the Janus fluid is reported with a bridge between new research results published in journal articles and a contextual literature review. Recent Monte Carlo simulations on the Kern and Frenkel model of the Janus fluid have revealed that in the vapor phase, below the critical point, there is the formation of preferred inert clusters made up of a well-defined number of particles: the micelles and the vesicles. This is responsible for a re-entrant gas branch of the gas-liquid binodal. Detailed account of this findings are given in the first chapter where the Janus fluid is introduced as a product of new sophisticated synthesis laboratory techniques. In the second chapter a cluster theory is developed to approximate the exact clustering properties stemming from the simulations. It is shown that the theory is able to reproduce semi-quantitatively the micellization phenomenon.
The state-of-the-art in the theoretical statistical physics treatment of the Janus fluid is reported with a bridge between new research results published in journal articles and a contextual literature review. Recent Monte Carlo simulations on the Kern and Frenkel model of the Janus fluid have revealed that in the vapor phase, below the critical point, there is the formation of preferred inert clusters made up of a well-defined number of particles: the micelles and the vesicles. This is responsible for a re-entrant gas branch of the gas-liquid binodal. Detailed account of this findings are given in the first chapter where the Janus fluid is introduced as a product of new sophisticated synthesis laboratory techniques. In the second chapter a cluster theory is developed to approximate the exact clustering properties stemming from the simulations. It is shown that the theory is able to reproduce semi-quantitatively the micellization phenomenon.
Represents a s state-of-the-art report of the Janus fluid Contains recent Monte Carlo simulations of Kern and Frenkel model of the Janus fluid Presents new sophisticated synthesis techniques for Janus fluid
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Riccardo Fantoni
Themen in »The Janus Fluid«
Cluster Theory Clustering and Micellization Configurational Partition Functions Janus Fluid Janus Particles Kern-Frenkel Model Monte-Carlo Simulation Numerical Simulations of Fluids
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From the reviews:
“The new brief book reviews the present advances in the theory of Janus fluids. … The book is written at a graduate student level of comprehension and should be of some use for the student who wishes to undergo research work in the field of soft matter and biophysics, or for the soft matter and biophysics scientist as a point of reference on the Janus fluid.” (Claudia-Veronika Meister, zbMATH, Vol. 1287, 2014)()