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Sponge phase transitions from a lattice model

Menon, GI and Pandit, R and Ramaswamy, S (1996) Sponge phase transitions from a lattice model. In: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology - Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 288 . pp. 93-104.

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Abstract

We use Monte Carlo simulations to obtain thermodynamic functions and correlation functions in a lattice model we propose for sponge phases. We demonstrate that the surface-density correlation function dominates the scattering only along the symmetric-sponge (SS) to asymmetric-sponge (AS) phase boundary but not the boundary between the sponge-with-free-edges (SFE) and symmetric-sponge phases. At this second thermodynamic transition the scattering is dominated instead by an edge-density (or seam-density) correlation function. This prediction provides an unambiguous diagnostic for experiments in search of the SS-SFE transition.

Item Type: Editorials/Short Communications
Publication: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology - Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to Taylor and Francis Group.
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 31 May 2011 05:06
Last Modified: 31 May 2011 05:06
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/37552

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