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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Protein Pept Lett. 2019 Sep 10;3(10):567–588. doi: 10.1038/s41570-019-0129-8

Fig. 10. The isotropic–nematic phase transition is entropically driven.

Fig. 10

Parallel arrangement of hard rods in solution results in the minimum excluded volume (red-shaded area), leading to the entropy maximum of the total system. This increases the translational freedom of rods and solvents, which facilitates the phase isotropic to nematic transition. Reproduced with permission from REF.179, Wiley-VCH.