Affiliation:
1. Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Abstract
A defect-induced, critical phase separation in dipolar fluids is predicted, which replaces the usual liquid-gas transition that is driven by the isotropic aggregation of particles and is absent in dipolar fluids due to strong chaining. The coexisting phases are a dilute gas of chain ends that coexists with a high-density liquid of chain branching points. Our model provides a unified explanation for the branched structures, the unusually low critical temperature and density, and the consequent two-phase coexistence “islands” that were recently observed in experiment and simulation.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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