Hard-Rod Behavior in Dense Mesophases of Semiflexible and Rigid Charged Viruses
We report on the phase behavior of a model system of colloidal rodlike particles, namely, the filamentous fd viruses, in the dense liquid crystalline states. After determining the phase boundaries as a function of the added salt, we propose a renormalization of the phase diagram accounting for the s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021053 |