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Effective Depletion Potential of Colloidal Spheres |
LI Wei-Hua; MA Hong-Ru |
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240 |
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LI Wei-Hua, MA Hong-Ru 2004 Chin. Phys. Lett. 21 1175-1178 |
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Abstract A new semianalytical method, which is a combination of the density functional theory with Rosenfeld density functional and the Ornstein-Zernike equation, is proposed for the calculation of the effective depletion potentials between a pair of big spheres immersed in a small hard sphere fluid. The calculated results are almost identical to the integral equation method with the Percus-Yevick approximation, and are also in agreement well with the Monte Carlo simulation results.
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Published: 01 June 2004
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