Effect of many-body interactions on the solid-liquid phase-behavior of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions

Details Effect of many-body interactions on the solid-liquid phase-behavior of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions Effect of many-body interactions on the solid-liquid phase-behavior of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions

2002-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0209162v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2003-00142-5

The solid-liquid phase-diagram of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions is calculated using a technique that combines a continuous Poisson-Boltzmann description for the microscopic electrolyte ions with a molecular-dynamics simulation for the macroionic colloidal spheres. While correlations between the microions are neglected in this approach, many-body interactions between the colloids are fully included. The solid-liquid transition is determined at a high colloid volume fraction where many-body interactions are expected to be strong. With a view to the Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek theory predicting that colloids interact via Yukawa pair-potentials, we compare our results with the phase diagram of a simple Yukawa liquid. Good agreement is found at high salt conditions, while at low ionic strength considerable deviations are observed. By calculating effective colloid-colloid pair-interactions it is demonstrated that these differences are due to many-body interactions. We suggest a density-dependent pair-potential in the form of a truncated Yukawa potential, and show that it offers a considerably improved description of the solid-liquid phase-behavior of concentrated colloidal suspensions.

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