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Entropic interfaces in hard-core model amphiphilic mixtures J. M. Brader and M. Schmidt, J. Coll. Interf. Sci. 281, 495 (2005). Locate in [bare] [illustrated] list. Get [full paper] as pdf. Abstract. We investigate bulk and interfacial properties of a recently proposed hard-body model for a ternary mixture of amphiphilic particles, spheres and needles using density functional theory. The simple model amphiphiles are formed by bonding a vanishingly thin needle tail radially to a hard-sphere head group. Such particles provide a natural amphiphile when added to a binary mixture of spheres and needles. As all interactions are hard, we seek to find whether amphiphilic effects can be driven by entropy without the need to invoke attractive interactions. In order to assess the amphiphilic character of the model we first examine the spatial and orientational distribution of the amphiphiles at the free interface between demixed needle-rich and amphiphile-rich fluid phases of the binary amphiphile-needle subsystem. We then consider the free interface between sphere-rich and needle-rich phases upon adding amphiphiles with low concentration to the demixed system. In both cases the orientational distribution of the particles in the interface provides strong evidence that amphiphilic properties can arise purely from geometrical packing effects. [figures] Read the [full paper] as pdf.

Hard core amphiphiles.

A model amphiphilic hard body mixture of spheres (o), needles (-), and lollipops (o-) [20] was used to investigate ordering of amphiphiles at a hard wall (|o-) [36] and at fluid interfaces [55].

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