Chemically active nanodroplets in a multi-component fluid
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Author(s)
Osmanovic, Dino
Rabin, Yitzhak
Date Issued
July 2019
Journal
Soft Matter
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Citation
Osmanovic, Dino, and Yitzhak Rabin, "Chemically active nanodroplets in a multi-component fluid." Soft Matter 15, 29 (July 2019): no. 5965 doi 10.1039/c9sm00826h ©2019 Author(s)
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Abstract
We introduce a model of chemically active particles of a multi-component fluid that can change their interactions with other particles depending on their state. Since such switching of interactions can only be maintained by the input of chemical energy, the system is inherently non-equilibrium. Focusing on a scenario where the equilibrium interactions would lead to condensation into a liquid droplet, and despite the relative simplicity of the interaction rules, these systems display a wealth of interesting and novel behaviors such as oscillations of droplet size and molecular sorting, and raise the possibility of spatio-temporal control of chemical reactions on the nanoscale. ©2019
Subjects
General Chemistry
Condensed Matter Physics
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sm00826h
