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  • Physical Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Statistical Mechanics

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  • Developing accurate thermodynamic models for hard-sphere fluids in porous media is challenging.
  • Existing theories struggle to describe fluids within complex, random matrices.
  • This limitation hinders advancements in understanding materials with disordered structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a simple, accurate analytical scheme for calculating fluid properties in random porous media.
  • To enable the study of network-forming fluids confined within hard-core obstacles.
  • To advance thermodynamic perturbation theories for disordered systems.

Main Methods:

  • Combined scaled-particle theory (SPT) with Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory (TPT).
  • Extended Flory-Stockmayer theory to address percolation in confined systems.
  • Modeled the fluid as hard spheres and the matrix as overlapping hard spheres.

Main Results:

  • Successfully calculated thermodynamic and percolation properties for network-forming fluids.
  • Determined the liquid-gas phase diagram and percolation threshold for patchy colloidal fluids.
  • Demonstrated the scheme's applicability to various polymerizing and network-forming fluids.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed analytical scheme offers a significant improvement for modeling confined fluids.
  • This method facilitates the prediction of critical properties in complex porous materials.
  • Enables broader applications in studying fluids within disordered matrices.