Abstract
Recent experiments on mixtures of rodlike and platelike colloidal particles have uncovered the
phase behavior of strongly asymmetrical rod-plate mixtures. In these mixtures, in which the
excluded volume of the platelets is much larger than that of the rods, an extended isotropic
(I)–plate-rich nematic (N-)–rod-rich nematic (N+) triphasic equilibrium was found. In this
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