Equilibrium onions?

Ramos, L., Roux, D., Olmsted, P.D. and Cates, M.E. (2004) Equilibrium onions? Europhysics Letters, 66 (6). pp. 888-894. ISSN 1286-4854

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Abstract

We demonstrate the possibility of a stable equilibrium multi-lamellar ("onion") phase in pure lamellar systems (no excess solvent) due to a sufficiently negative Gaussian curvature modulus. The onion phase is stabilized by non-linear elastic moduli coupled to a polydisperse size distribution (Apollonian packing) to allow space-filling without appreciable elastic distortion. This model is compared to experiments on copolymer-decorated lamellar surfactant systems, with reasonable qualitative agreement.

Item Type:	Article
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2004 EDP Sciences. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) The University of Leeds > University of Leeds Research Centres and Institutes > Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Polymer Science and Technology (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Repository Officer
Date Deposited:	08 Feb 2007
Last Modified:	08 Feb 2013 17:06
Published Version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-10260-6
Status:	Published
Publisher:	EDP Sciences
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1209/epl/i2003-10260-6
URI:	http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/1955

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