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Sedimentation-diffusion equilibrium density profiles of suspensions of charge-stabilized colloids are calculated theoretically and by Monte Carlo simulation, both for a one-component model of colloidal particles interacting through pairwise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Aldemar Torres , Alejandro Cuetos , Marjolein Dijkstra , Rene van Roij

We consider a one-dimensional model allowing analytical derivation of the effective interactions between two charged colloids. We evaluate exactly the partition function for an electroneutral salt-free suspension with dielectric jumps at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-23 Lucas Varela , Gabriel Tellez , Emmanuel Trizac

We consider a binary system of small and large spheres of finite size in a continuous medium interacting via a non-negative potential. We work in the canonical ensemble and compute upper and lower bound for the free energy at finite and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Tong Xuan Nguyen , Giuseppe Scola , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

We study the effect of solvent granularity on the effective force between two charged colloidal particles by computer simulations of the primitive model of strongly asymmetric electrolytes with an explicitly added hard sphere solvent. Apart…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Allahyarov , H. Loewen

In this work, we explore the statistical physics of colloidal particles that interact with electrolytes via ion-specific interactions. Firstly we study particles interact weakly with electrolyte using linear response theory. We find that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-12 Mingnan Ding , Yihao Liang , Xiangjun Xing

We evaluate exactly the statistical integral for an inhomogeneous one-dimensional counterion-only Coulomb gas between two charged boundaries and from this compute the effective interaction, or disjoining pressure, between the bounding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-10 David S. Dean , Ron R. Horgan , Ali Naji , Rudolf Podgornik

We analyze theoretically the electrostatic interaction of surface-charged colloids at water interfaces with special attention to the experimentally relevant case of large charge densities on the colloid-water interface. Whereas linear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-11-13 D. Frydel , S. Dietrich , M. Oettel

The response of a suspension under a variety of static or alternating external fields strongly depends on the equilibrium electric double layer that surrounds the colloidal particles in the suspension. The theoretical models for salt-free…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-11 Jun-Sik Sin , Kwang-Il Kim , Kuk-Chol Ri , Dok-Yong Ju , Nam-Hyok Kim , Chung-Sik Sin

Using computer simulations, the electrophoretic motion of a positively charged colloid (macroion) in an electrolyte solution is studied in the framework of the primitive model. Hydrodynamic interactions are fully taken into account by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Apratim Chatterji , Jürgen Horbach

We discuss in detail properties of trapped atomic condensates with anisotropic dipole interactions. A practical procedure for constructing anisotropic low energy pseudo potentials is proposed and justified by the agreement with results of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Yi , L. You

The dynamics of strongly interacting trapped dilute Fermi gases (dilute in the sense that the range of interatomic potential is small compared with inter-particle spacing) is investigated in a single-equation approach to the time-dependent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-05 Yeong E. Kim , Alexander L. Zubarev

We consider two charged semipermeable membranes, which bound bulk electrolyte solutions and are separated by a thin film of salt-free liquid. Small counter-ions permeate into the gap, which leads to a steric charge separation in the system.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Salim R. Maduar , Olga I. Vinogradova

This paper builds on two previous works, Lindgren et al. J. Comp. Phys. 371, 712-731 (2018) and Quan et al. arXiv:1807.05384 (2018), to devise a new method to solve the problem of calculating electrostatic interactions in a system composed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Eric B. Lindgren , Chaoyu Quan , Benjamin Stamm

Simulations of colloidal suspensions consisting of mesoscopic particles and smaller species such as ions or depletants are computationally challenging as different length and time scales are involved. Here, we introduce a machine learning…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-01 Gerardo Campos-Villalobos , Emanuele Boattini , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra

We report observations of stable bound pairs in very dilute deionized aqueous suspensions of highly charged polystyrene colloidal particles, with monovalent counterions, using a confocal laser scanning microscope. Through an analysis of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 B. V. R. Tata , P. S. Mohanty , M. C. Valsakumar

By using a Hamiltonian based on the coupling through flux lines, we have calculated the interaction energy between two fermions via massless bosons as well as via massive particles. In the case of interaction via massless bosons we obtain…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-06 Voicu Dolocan , Voicu Octavian Dolocan , Andrei Dolocan

Theoretical studies of self-assembly processes and condensed phases in colloidal systems are often based on effective inter-particle potentials. Here we show that developing an effective potential for particles interacting with a limited…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Julio Largo , Piero Tartaglia , Francesco Sciortino

The behaviour and stability of soft and biological matter depend significantly on electrostatic interactions, as particles such as proteins and colloids acquire a charge when dispersed in an electrolytic solution. A typical simplification…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-09 Andraž Gnidovec , Emanuele Locatelli , Simon Čopar , Anže Božič , Emanuela Bianchi

Colloidal dispersions are commonly encountered in everyday life and represent an important class of complex fluid. Of particular significance for many commercial products and industrial processes is the ability to control and manipulate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-30 J. M. Brader

We study structural relaxation of colloidal hard spheres undergoing Brownian motion using dynamical density functional theory. Contrary to the partial linearization route [Stopper {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 92}, 022151 (2015)] which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-16 Daniel Stopper , Roland Roth , Hendrik Hansen-Goos