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The interplay of interactions between micelles, and the aggregation of these micelles into large, highly anisotropic micelles, is studied. Simple, hard-body, models of rod-like and disc-like micelles are used, which allows us to apply fundamental measure theory to determine the free energy. Then we study the phase transition from the fluid phase to a liquid crystalline phase. We find that aggregation induces a strongly first order transition from a fluid phase of small micelles to a close packed liquid crystalline phase of infinitely large micelles.
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Received: 3 December 1997
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Cuesta, J., Sear, R. Phase transitions in simple models of rod-like and disc-like micelles. Eur. Phys. J. B 8, 233–243 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050686
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050686