| Issue |
EPL
Volume 85, Number 3, February 2009
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 36003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/85/36003 | |
| Published online | 13 February 2009 | |
Depletion interaction of two spheres —Full density functional theory vs. morphometric results
1
Institut für Physik, WA 331, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz - D-55099 Mainz, Germany, EU
2
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung - Heisenbergstr. 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany, EU
3
ITAP, Universität Stuttgart - Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany, EU
4
Department for the Modeling of Physico-Chemical Processes, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University 20-031 Lublin, Poland, EU
Corresponding author: oettelm@uni-mainz.de
Received:
19
December
2008
Accepted:
19
January
2009
Morphological thermodynamics is employed to calculate the depletion potential between two big hard spheres in a solvent of small spheres. Thereby, the potential is characterized solely by the geometric properties of the solvent-accessible surface of the two-sphere configuration in the depletion region. Comparison with explicit density functional theory calculations using accurate functionals of the fundamental measure type shows good agreement.
PACS: 61.20.-p – Structure of liquids / 82.70.Dd – Colloids
© EPLA, 2009
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.