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Charge inversion in colloidal systems

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We investigate spherical macroions in the strong Coulomb coupling regime within the primitive model in salt-free environment. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to elucidate the effect of discretediscrete macroion charge distribution on charge inversion. A systematic comparison is made with the charge inversion obtained in the conventional continuous charge distribution. Furthermore the effect of multivalent counterions is reported.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0201111,
  title  = {Charge inversion in colloidal systems},
  author = {Rene Messina and Christian Holm and Kurt Kremer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0201111},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, LATEX (elsevier), 4 EPS files - Proceedings of CCP 2001 (Conference on Computational Physics 2001, Aachen, Germany 5-8 September 2001) - To appear in Computer Physics Communications