2015/11/30 by Daniel de las Heras, M. M. Telo da Gama, Margarida M. Telo da Gama · 9 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chemistry #Colloid #Condensed matter physics #Conductivity #Critical exponent #Directed percolation #Electrical resistivity and conductivity #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Percolation (cognitive psychology) #Percolation theory #Percolation threshold #Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) #Phase transition #Physical chemistry #Physics #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Polymer #Polymerization #Quantum mechanics #Reentrancy #Statistical physics #Surfactants and Colloidal Systems #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/28/24/244008
published in Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 28(24), 244008 (IOP Publishing) · 6 pages, 5 figures. Accepted in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
arxiv created 2016/01/07 · openalex publication_date 2016/04/26 · arxiv updated 2016/05/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present a new model of patchy particles in which the interaction sites can be activated or deactivated by varying the temperature of the system. We study the thermodynamics of the system by means of Wertheim's first order perturbation theory, and use Flory-Stockmayer theory of polymerization to analyse the percolation threshold. We find a very rich phase behaviour including lower critical points and reentrant percolation.