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A self-consistent renormalized jellium approach for calculating structural and thermodynamic properties of charge
Thiago E Colla1, Yan Levin, Emmanuel Trizac
1Instituto de Física, Universidade Fedaral do Rio Grande do Sul, CP 15051, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. colla@if.ufrgs.br
Abstract:
An approach is proposed which allows to self-consistently calculate the structural and the thermodynamic properties of highly charged aqueous colloidal suspensions. The method is based on the renormalized jellium model with the background charge distribution related to the colloid-colloid correlation function. The theory is used to calculate the correlation functions and the effective colloidal charges for suspensions containing additional monovalent electrolyte. The predictions of the theory are in excellent agreement with Monte Carlo simulations.
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