Depletion potential in colloidal mixtures of hard spheres and platelets

Details Depletion potential in colloidal mixtures of hard spheres and platelets Depletion potential in colloidal mixtures of hard spheres and platelets

2004-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401380v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.051501

The depletion potential between two hard spheres in a solvent of thin hard disclike platelets is investigated by using either the Derjaguin approximation or density functional theory. Particular attention is paid to the density dependence of the depletion potential. A second-order virial approximation is applied, which yields nearly exact results for the bulk properties of the hard-platelet fluid at densities two times smaller than the density of the isotropic fluid at isotropic-nematic phase coexistence. As the platelet density increases, the attractive primary minimum of the depletion potential deepens and an additional small repulsive barrier at larger sphere separations develops. Upon decreasing the ratio of the radius of the spheres and the platelets, the primary minimum diminishes and the position of the small repulsive barrier shifts to smaller values of the sphere separation.

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