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  • Control over material properties of mixtures [Elektronski vir]
    Repnik, Robert ; Popa-Nita, Vlad Dumitru ; Kralj, Samo
    We study the universal behaviour of the "slave-master" mechanism. In it one component strongly influences the other while the reverse influence is negligible. For this purpose we study a bicomponent ... mixture. Each of the components in the isolation exhibits a phase transition on varying the control parameter (e. g. temperature, pressure, concentration of one component) to which we refer as the generalized temperature. An example of such a system presents a mixture of liquid crystal molecules and nanoparticles. We present aminimal models that shows robust and universal (i. e. independent of microscopic details) "slave-master" behaviour. Qualitatively different slave-master behaviours can be triggered via specific nature of the intercomponent interaction.
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2008
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 16067592