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    9. Colloidal particles in emulsions
    F. L. Roman, M. Schmidt, and H. Löwen, Phys. Rev. E 61, 5445 (2000).
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    Abstract. We propose a statistical mechanical model for colloidal particles suspended in an emulsion of liquid droplets. The particles are modeled as hard spheres. The interaction between droplets is also hard, but the particles are able to penetrate the droplets. A swelling of droplets is taken into account to ensure material conservation of the droplet liquid. Hence the presence of the colloids generates droplet polydispersity. Using computer simulation and liquid state theory, we find that the relative polydispersity exhibits nonmonotonic behavior as a function of the particle packing fraction and can be traced back to hard sphere bulk density fluctuations. [figures]


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    Hard spheres

    The hard sphere system freezes between [2] and [3], and in ~[23] dimensions (tags as contents!), as well as on stripe-patterned substrates [26]. Deep relations to dimensional crossover exist [5] [6]. Hard spheres were immersed in emulsions [9], confined to a flexible container [18], exposed to surfaces of other quenched spheres [37] and of random fiber networks [39], and subject to gravity [51]. Recently, the Rosenfeld functional [5] [6] was generalized to non-additive mixtures [53].

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