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Volume 147, Number 2, August 2024
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Article Number | 27001 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Biological and soft matter physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ad60f3 | |
Published online | 09 August 2024 |
Mobility-induced kinetic effects in multicomponent mixtures
1 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - 37077 Göttingen, Germany
2 King's College London, Department of Mathematics - Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
Received: 3 May 2024
Accepted: 9 July 2024
We give an overview exploring the role of kinetics in multicomponent mixtures. Compared to the most commonly studied binary (single species plus solvent) case, multicomponent fluids show a rich interplay between kinetics and thermodynamics due to the possibility of fractionation, interdiffusion of mixture components and collective motion. This leads to a competition between multiple timescales that change depending on the underlying kinetics. At high densities, crowding effects are relevant and non-equilibrium structures can become long-lived. We present the main approaches for the study of kinetic effects in multicomponents mixtures, including the role of crowding, and explore their consequences for equilibrium and non-equilibrium scenarios. We conclude by identifying the main challenges in the field.
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