A self-consistent renormalized Jellium approach for calculating structural and thermodynamic properties of charge stabilized colloidal suspensions
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-27 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
An approach is proposed which allows to self-consistently calculate the structural and thermodynamic properties of highly charged aqueous colloidal suspensions. The method is based on the renormalized Jellium model with the background charge distribution related to the colloid-colloid correlation function. The theory is used to calculate the correlation functions and the effective colloidal charges for suspension containing additional monovalent electrolyte. The predictions of the theory are in excellent agreement with the Monte Carlo simulations.
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@article{arxiv.0905.1620,
title = {A self-consistent renormalized Jellium approach for calculating structural and thermodynamic properties of charge stabilized colloidal suspensions},
author = {Thiago E. Colla and Yan Levin and E. Trizac},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1620},
year = {2009}
}