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We analyze the depletion interaction between two hard colloids in a hard--sphere solvent and pay special attention to the limit of large size ratio between colloids and solvent particles which is governed by the well--known Derjaguin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Oettel

A geometry-based density functional theory is presented for mixtures of hard spheres, hard needles and hard platelets; both the needles and the platelets are taken to be of vanishing thickness. Geometrical weight functions that are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ansgar Esztermann , Hendrik Reich , Matthias Schmidt

This paper determines the excess free energy associated with the formation of a spherical cavity in a hard sphere fluid. The solvation free energy can be calculated by integration of the structural changes induced by inserting the cavity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yng-gwei Chen , John D. Weeks

A density functional theory for a mixture of hard rods and polymers modeled as chains built of hard tangent spheres is proposed by combining the functional due to Yu and Wu for the polymer mixtures [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 117}, 2368 (2002)]…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bryk

The behavior of mesoscopic particles dissolved in a dilute solution of long, flexible, and nonadsorbing polymer chains is studied by field-theoretic methods. For spherical and cylindrical particles the solvation free energy for immersing a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Hanke , E. Eisenriegler , S. Dietrich

A new closed virial equation of state of hard-sphere fluids is proposed which reproduces the calculated or estimated values of the first sixteen virial coefficients at the same time as giving very good accuracy when compared with computer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 Jianxiang Tian , Yuanxing Gui , Angel Mulero

We present a new method for studying equilibrium properties of interacting fluids in an arbitrary external field. The fluid is composed of monodisperse spherical particles with hard-core repulsion and additional interactions of arbitrary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-09 Benaoumeur Bakhti , Gerhard Müller

In a mixed suspension of rods and small polymer coils, the rods adsorb onto a hard wall in contact with the suspension. This adsorption is studied in the low density of rods limit. It is driven by depletion forces and is much stronger for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Richard P. Sear

Fluids consisting of hard platelike particles near a hard wall are investigated using density functional theory. The density and orientational profiles as well as the surface tension and the excess coverage are determined and compared with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Harnau , S. Dietrich

We use the extension of scaled particle theory (ESPT) presented in the accompanying paper [Stillinger et al. J. Chem. Phys. xxx, xxx (2007)] to calculate numerically pair correlation function of the hard sphere fluid over the density range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Swaroop Chatterjee , Pablo G. Debenedetti , Frank H. Stillinger

By a choice of new variables the pressure isotropy condition for spherically symmetric static perfect fluid spacetimes can be made a quadratic algebraic equation in one of the two functions appearing in it. Using the other variable as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gyula Fodor

Previously, it has been shown that the direct correlation function for a Lennard-Jones fluid could be modeled by a sum of that for hard-spheres, a mean-field tail and a simple linear correction in the core region constructed so as to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 James F. Lutsko

We obtain a fundamental measure density functional for mixtures of parallel hard cylinders. To this purpose we first generalize to multicomponent mixtures the fundamental measure functional proposed by Tarazona and Rosenfeld for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Jose A. Capitan , Jose A. Cuesta

Using a density functional based interface displacement model we determine the effective interaction potential between two spherical particles which are immersed in a homogeneous fluid such as the vapor phase of a one-component substance or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Bauer , T. Bieker , S. Dietrich

The chemical potential of a hard-sphere fluid can be expressed in terms of the contact value of the radial distribution function of a solute particle with a diameter varying from zero to that of the solvent particles. Exploiting the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-24 Andrés Santos

We introduce a new form of density functional theory for the {\em ab initio} description of electronic systems in contact with a molecular liquid environment. This theory rigorously joins an electron density-functional for the electrons of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sahak Petrosyan , Jean-Francois Briere , David Roundy , T. A. Arias

A classical density functional theory is applied to study solvation of solutes in water. An approx- imate form of the excess functional is proposed for water. This functional requires the knowledge of pure solvent direct correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Guillaume Jeanmairet

A new model potential is introduced to describe the hollow nanospheres such as fullerene and molecular structures and to obtain their electronic properties. A closed analytical solution of the corresponding treatment is given within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 K. Köksal , M. Öncan , Bulent Gönül , Besire Gönül

We present a new method for Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics numerical simulations of three dimensional polar fluids. The simulation cell is defined to be the surface of the northern hemisphere of a four-dimensional (hyper)sphere. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-29 Jean-Michel Caillol , Martin Trulsson

We propose a method of transformation from a force curve obtained with a surface force apparatus (SFA) to a density distribution of a liquid near a surface. The method is based on the statistical mechanics of liquids. As a first step, we…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-11-17 Ken-ich Amano , Ohgi Takahashi