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Another Face of Entropy

Particles self-organize to make room for randomness

Scientists find entropy to be a powerful agent and possibly a practical tool for creating order in microscopic suspensions and biological cells.

References:

Adams, M. . . . S. Fraden. 1998. Entropically driven microphase transitions in mixtures of colloidal rods and spheres. Nature 393((May 28):349.

Dinsmore, A.D. . . . A.G. Yodh. 1998. Hard spheres in vesicles: Curvature-induced forces and particle-induced curvature. Physical Review Letters 80(Jan. 12):409.

Dinsmore, A.D., A.G. Yodh, and D.J. Pine. 1996. Entropic control of particle motion using passive surface microstructures. Nature 383(Sept. 19):239.

Rein ten Wolde, P., and D. Frenkel. 1997. Enhancement of protein crystal nucleation by critical density fluctuations. Science 277(Sept. 26):1979.

Further Readings:

Asakura, S., and F. Oosawa. 1958. Interaction between particles suspended in solutions of macromolecules. Journal of Polymer Science 183.

Gast, A.P., W.B. Russel, and C.K. Hall. 1986. An experimental and theoretical study of phase transitions in the polystyrene latex and hydroxyethylcellulose system. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 109(January):161. [should be in further readings]

Minton, A.P. 1997. Influence of excluded volume upon macromolecular structure and associations in ‘crowded’ media. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 8:65.

Sharma, A., and J.Y. Walz. 1996. Direct measurement of the depletion interaction in a charged colloidal dispersion. Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 92:4997.

Wu, C. 1997. Holey device traps light for lasers, filters. Science News 152(Nov. 15):310.

______. 1997. Gazing into crystals balls. Science News 151(April 12):224.

______. 1996. Light gets the bends in a photonic crystal. Science News 150(Nov. 16):309.

Sources:

Anthony D. Dinsmore
Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20375

Dennis E. Discher
University of Pennsylvania
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Departments of Mechanical, Chemical, and Bio-Engineering
Towne Building 112
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315

Seth Fraden
Brandeis University
Complex Fluids Group
Martin Fisher School of Physics
Waltham, MA 02254

Daan Frenkel
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
Kruislaan 407
1098 SJ Amsterdam
Netherlands

Alice P. Gast
Stanford University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Stauffer III
381 North-South Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-5025

Allen P. Minton
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology
Section on Physical Biochemistry
Bethesda, MD 20892-0830

David Pine
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Chemical Engineering
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080

Pieter Rein ten Wolde
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
Kruislaan 407
1098 SJ Amsterdam
Netherlands

Philip D. Ross
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Bethesda, MD 20205

Adam J. Simon
Merck Research Laboratory
WP 78-302
West Point, PA 19486

John Y. Walz
Yale University
Department of Chemical Engineering
P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520-8286

Arjun Yodh
University of Pennsylvania
David Rittenhouse Laboratory
209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Steven B. Zimmerman
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Section on Physical Chemistry
Building 5, Room 330
Bethesda, MD 20892

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