Phase Behavior of Rod-Like Viruses and Virus–Sphere Mixtures

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Entropy-Driven Ordering Within the Second Virial Approximation Isotropic–Nematic Phase Transition Within the Second Virial Approximation Extension of Onsager Theory to Charged Rods Extension of Onsager Theory to Semi-Flexible Rods Extension of Onsager Theory to Rods with Finite Aspect Ratio Using Scaled Particle Theory Nematic–Smectic Phase Transition Within the Second Virial Approximation Phase Behavior of a Binary Mixture of Hard Particles Experimental Phase Diagram of an fd Virus Suspension Properties and Preparation of Filamentous Bacteriophage Isotropic–Cholesteric Phase Transition in fd Virus Suspensions Polymer-Coated fd Virus and Its Isotropic–Cholesteric Phase Transition Cholesteric Phase of fd Virus Nematic Order Parameter of fd Virus Suspensions Smectic Phase of fd Virus Bulk Phase Behavior of Rod–Sphere and Rod–Polymer Mixtures Depletion Interaction Between Hard Spheres Phase Diagrams of Hard Spheres and Polymers or Isotropic Hard Rods Influence of Non-Adsorbing Polymer on the Isotropic–Nematic Phase Transition Entropically Driven Microphase Separation in Rod–Sphere Mixtures Lamellar Phase in Rod–Polymer and Rod–Sphere Mixtures Columnar Phase and Chain-Like Structures in Mixtures of fd Virus and Hard Spheres Self-Assembled Colloidal Membranes and Twisted Ribbons Monte Carlo Simulation of Colloidal Membranes Crystalline Membranes Surface-Induced Smectic Ordering in Rod–Polymer Mixtures Kinetics of Liquid-Crystalline Phase Transitions Kinetics of the Isotropic–Nematic and Nematic–Smectic Phase Transitions in Hard-Rod Suspensions Kinetics of the Isotropic–Smectic Phase Transition Filamentous Structures Associated with Nematic–Smectic Phase Transitions Multiple Pathways Observed in Melting of the Lamellar Phase Conclusions and Open Questions