Publication: The vapour-liquid transition of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions: an effective one-component description
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2003-12-10
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The low-density phase diagrams of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions of the Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek theory with an approximate effective one-component Hamiltonian given by the volume term and effective pair interactions, and of the classical theory (without including the volume term), are obtained from the hypernetted-chain integral equation at low colloidal charges. In the salt-free case both phase diagrams exhibit a vapour-liquid transition with short-ranged colloid-colloid correlations. This phase separation is compared to the vapour-liquid transition found in binary mixtures of highly asymmetrical hard spheres.
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© 2003 IOP Publishing Ltd. Workshop on Effective Many-Body Interactions and Correlations in Soft Matter (2003. Lyon, France). We are grateful to M Dijkstra and R van Roij for sending to us their simulation results. We wish to thank M Baus and E Lomba for many useful discussions. We acknowledge financial support from the Dirección General de Enseñanza Superior e Investigación Científica
(DGESCYT) under grants No BFM2001-1017-C03-03 (GR and CFT) and No BQU2001-3615-C02-01 (JAA) and from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III grant No 01/1664 (JAA).
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