Structure and Dynamics of Binary Soft-Colloid mixtures [Elektronische Ressource] / Manuel Alfonso Camargo Chaparro

.Structure and Dynamicsof Binary Soft-Colloid mixturesInaugural-Dissertationzur Erlangung des Doktorgrades derMathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakult¨ atder Heinrich-Heine-Universit¨ at Dusseldorf¨vorgelegt vonManuel Alfonso Camargo Chaparroaus Sogamoso (Kolumbien)Dusseldorf,¨ Mai 2011Aus dem Institut fur¨ Theoretische Physikder Heinrich-Heine Universit¨ at Dusseldorf¨Gedruckt mit Genehmigung derMathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakult¨ atder Heinrich-Heine-Universit¨ at Dusseldorf¨Referent: Prof. Dr. Christos N. LikosKoreferent: Prof. Dr. Jan K. G. Dhontt: Prof. Dimitris VlassopoulosTag der mundlic¨ hen Prufung:¨ 26. Mai 2011.c⃝Manuel Alfonso Camargo Chaparro 2011All Rights Reserved.ivThe work described in this thesis has been published in a number of papers, whichconstitute the following self-contained chapters:Chapter 2. M. Camargo and C. N. Likos, Phase separation in star-linear polymermixtures, J. Chem. Phys. 130, 204904 (2009).M. Camargo and C. N. Likos, Cluster formation in star-linear polymermixtures: equilibrium and dynamical properties, in preparation.Chapter 3. M. Camargo and C. N. Likos, Unusual features of depletion inter-actions in soft polymer-based colloids mixed with homopolymers, Phys. Rev.Lett. 104, 078301 (2010).- Selected as PRL-Highlight in The Biological Physicist, Newsletter of the Divisionof Biological Physics of the American Physical Society, Vol. 9, No. 7, April2010.