Thermodynamic perturbation theory of the phase behaviour of colloid / interacting polymer mixtures

Details Thermodynamic perturbation theory of the phase behaviour of colloid / interacting polymer mixtures Thermodynamic perturbation theory of the phase behaviour of colloid / interacting polymer mixtures

2003-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305533v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Molecular Physics

Scientific paper

10.1080/0026897032000158315

We use thermodynamic perturbation theory to calculate the free energies and resulting phase diagrams of binary systems of spherical colloidal particles and interacting polymer coils in good solvent within an effective one-component representation of such mixtures, whereby the colloidal particles interact via a polymer-induced depletion potential. MC simulations are used to test the convergence of the high temperature expansion of the free energy. The phase diagrams calculated for several polymer to colloid size ratios differ considerably from the results of similar calculations for mixtures of colloids and ideal (non-interacting) polymers, and are in good overall agreement with the results of an explicit two-component representation of the same system, which includes more than two-body depletion forces.

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