Sedimentation of binary mixtures of like- and oppositely charged colloids: the primitive model or effective pair potentials?

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2005-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512599v1

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. 18, 825 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

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10.1088/0953-8984/18/3/005

We study sedimentation equilibrium of low-salt suspensions of binary mixtures of charged colloids, both by Monte Carlo simulations of an effective colloids-only system and by Poisson-Boltzmann theory of a colloid-ion mixture. We show that the theoretically predicted lifting and layering effect, which involves the entropy of the screening ions and a spontaneous macroscopic electric field [J. Zwanikken and R. van Roij, Europhys. Lett. {\bf 71}, 480 (2005)], can also be understood on the basis of an effective colloid-only system with pairwise screened-Coulomb interactions. We consider, by theory and by simulation, both repelling like-charged colloids and attracting oppositely charged colloids, and we find a re-entrant lifting and layering phenomenon when the charge ratio of the colloids varies from large positive through zero to large negative values.

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