Thermodynamics of Mesoscopic Fluctuations In Soft Matter
Mikhail A. Anisimov and Jan V. Sengers, University of Maryland, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Phase equilibria in soft-matter materials, such as complex fluids, are often dominated by mesoscopic fluctuations, which make the description of very different systems universal and thus relatively simple. In our presentation we explain how mesoscopic fluctuations affect the nature of phase equilibria in complex fluids and fundamentally change thermodynamics of curved surfaces.

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