Percolation in random sequential adsorption of polydisperse mixtures of extended objects on a triangular lattice

Abstract

Percolation properties of an adsorbed polydisperse mixture of extended objects on a triangular lattice are studied by Monte Carlo simulations. The depositing objects of various shapes are formed by self-avoiding walks on the lattice. We study polydisperse mixtures in which the size of the shape making the mixture increases gradually with the number of components. This study examines the influence of the shape of the primary object defining a polydisperse mixture on its percolation and jamming properties. The dependence of the jamming density and percolation threshold on the number of components n making the mixture is analyzed. Determining the contribution of the individual components in the lattice covering allowed a better insight into the deposit structure of the n-component mixture at the percolation threshold. In addition, we studied mixtures of objects of various shapes but the same size.