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Entropy-driven phase transitions

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Increase in visible order can be associated with an increase in microscopic disorder. This phenomenon leads to many counter-intuitive phenomena such as entropy driven crystallization and phase separation. I devote special attention to the entropic depletion interaction as a means to tune the range of attraction between colloids. The range of the intermolecular potential determines whether or not stable liquid-vapor coexistence is possible. For short range attraction, the liquid-vapor transition may be located below the sublimation line. Under those conditions, meta-stable critical fluctuations may enhance the rate of crystal nucleation

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  • Frenkel, Daan, 1999. "Entropy-driven phase transitions," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 263(1), pages 26-38.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:263:y:1999:i:1:p:26-38
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00501-9
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    1. Bumstead, M. & Arnold, B. & Turak, A., 2017. "Reproducing morphologies of disorderly self-assembling planar molecules with static and dynamic simulation methods by matching density," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 471(C), pages 301-314.
    2. Montecinos, Alejandra & Loyola, Claudia & Peralta, Joaquín & Davis, Sergio, 2021. "Microcanonical potential energy fluctuations and configurational density of states for nanoscale systems," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 562(C).
    3. Butera, P. & Pernici, M., 2016. "Ising low-temperature polynomials and hard-sphere gases on cubic lattices of general dimension," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 444(C), pages 220-234.

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