Narayanan, T and Kumar, Anil (1994) Reentrant phase transitions in multicomponent liquid mixtures. In: Physics Reports, 249 (3). pp. 135-218.
PDF
anka1.pdf Restricted to Registered users only Download (10MB) | Request a copy |
Abstract
A comprehensive review of the recent developments regarding the phenomenon of reentrant phase transitions (RPT) in binary and multicomponent liquid mixtures is presented. This phenomenon has been observed in amazingly diverse systems. A brief account of the analytical efforts to model the reentrant miscibility - especially in the limit of vanishing reentrance marked by a double critical point (DCP) - is provided. A critical assessment of the initial experimental investigations concerning RPT is made and the factors which impede its proper understanding are identified. The approach to double criticality is rationalized by a crossover of the Ising-like critical exponents from their doubled to single limit, with the doubled region prevailing in the entire temperature range at DCP. A range of unexplored problems, which can be readily addressed by using reentrant multicomponent liquid mixtures, is discussed.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
---|---|
Publication: | Physics Reports |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Additional Information: | The copyright of this article belongs to Elsevir. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2006 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:29 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/7869 |
Actions (login required)
View Item |