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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015

Effective charges and virial pressure of concentrated macroion solutions.

Niels Boon, Guillermo Ivan Guerrero-García, René van Roij, Monica Olvera de la Cruz

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. Extension of Kelvin's equation to dipolar colloids.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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Niels BoonDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208;
Guillermo Ivan Guerrero-GarcíaDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; Instituto de Física, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, 78000 San Luis Potosí, Mexico;
René van RoijInstitute for Theoretical Physics, Center for Extreme Matter and Emergent Phenomena, Utrecht University, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Monica Olvera de la CruzDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; m-olvera@northwestern.edu.

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Abstract

The stability of colloidal suspensions is crucial in a wide variety of processes, including the fabrication of photonic materials and scaffolds for biological assemblies. The ionic strength of the electrolyte that suspends charged colloids is widely used to control the physical properties of colloidal suspensions. The extensively used two-body Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) approach allows for a quantitative analysis of the effective electrostatic forces between colloidal particles. DLVO relates the ionic double layers, which enclose the particles, to their effective electrostatic repulsion. Nevertheless, the double layer is distorted at high macroion volume fractions. Therefore, DLVO cannot describe the many-body effects that arise in concentrated suspensions. We show that this problem can be largely resolved by identifying effective point charges for the macroions using cell theory. This extrapolated point charge (EPC) method assigns effective point charges in a consistent way, taking into account the excluded volume of highly charged macroions at any concentration, and thereby naturally accounting for high volume fractions in both salt-free and added-salt conditions. We provide an analytical expression for the effective pair potential and validate the EPC method by comparing molecular dynamics simulations of macroions and monovalent microions that interact via Coulombic potentials to simulations of macroions interacting via the derived EPC effective potential. The simulations reproduce the macroion-macroion spatial correlation and the virial pressure obtained with the EPC model. Our findings provide a route to relate the physical properties such as pressure in systems of screened Coulomb particles to experimental measurements.

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cell modelcolloidsDLVOelectrolytesmacroions

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PMID26170315
PMCPMC4522818

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