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- The phase behavior of charged colloidal systems in the mean spherical approximation
- Petris, Simon N.; Chan, Derek Y. C.
- The mean spherical approximation (MSA) was used to investigate the phase behavior of charged colloidal systems with and without added salt. The competition between cohesive Coulomb interactions and stabilizing entropic and hard-core interactions controls the stability of the system and under certain circumstances, a liquid-gas-type phase transition can occur. The critical parameters and phase diagrams in the MSA obtained via the internal energy path, are compared with two-component Monte Carlo simulations and other theoretical approaches.
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- Journal article
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 116, no. 19 (May 2002), pp. 8588-8595
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- 02 Physical Sciences; 03 Chemical Sciences; 09 Engineering
- Charged colloidal systems; Mean spherical approximation; Phase behaviour
- American Institute of Physics
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- Copyright © 2002 American Institute of Physics. The published version is reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council.
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