TY - JOUR
T1 - Charge Renormalization, Thermodynamics, and Structure of Deionized Colloidal Suspensions
AU - Ben Lu & Alan R. Denton
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 2
SP - 235
EP - 249
PY - 2010
DA - 2010/02
SN - 7
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2009.08.203
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7627.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">In charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions, highly charged macroions,
dressed by strongly correlated counterions, carry an effective charge that can be substantially
reduced (renormalized) from the bare charge. Interactions between dressed
macroions are screened by weakly correlated counterions and salt ions. Thermodynamic
and structural properties of colloidal suspensions depend sensitively on the
magnitudes of both the effective charge and the effective screening constant. Combining
a charge renormalization theory of effective electrostatic interactions with Monte
Carlo simulations of a one-component model, we compute osmotic pressures and pair
distribution functions of deionized colloidal suspensions. This computationally practical
approach yields close agreement with corresponding results from large-scale simulations
of the primitive model up to modest electrostatic coupling strengths.</p>