TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing the Morphology of Separated Phases in Multicomponent Liquid Mixtures
AU - Mao, Sheng
AU - Chakraverti-Wuerthwein, Milena S.
AU - Gaudio, Hunter
AU - Košmrlj, Andrej
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Physical Society.
PY - 2020/11/19
Y1 - 2020/11/19
N2 - Phase separation of multicomponent liquid mixtures plays an integral part in many processes ranging from industry to cellular biology. In many cases the morphology of coexisting phases is crucially linked to the function of the separated mixture, yet it is unclear what determines the morphology when multiple phases are present. We developed a graph theory approach to predict the topology of coexisting phases from a given set of surface energies, enumerate all topologically distinct morphologies, and reverse engineer conditions for surface energies that produce the target morphology.
AB - Phase separation of multicomponent liquid mixtures plays an integral part in many processes ranging from industry to cellular biology. In many cases the morphology of coexisting phases is crucially linked to the function of the separated mixture, yet it is unclear what determines the morphology when multiple phases are present. We developed a graph theory approach to predict the topology of coexisting phases from a given set of surface energies, enumerate all topologically distinct morphologies, and reverse engineer conditions for surface energies that produce the target morphology.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.218003
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.218003
M3 - Article
C2 - 33275007
AN - SCOPUS:85097311463
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 125
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 21
M1 - 218003
ER -