Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-11-11
J. Chem. Phys. 133, 234105 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3523349
An extension of the renormalized Jellium model which allows to study colloidal suspensions containing trivalent counterions is proposed. The theory is based on a modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation which incorporates the effects of counterion correlations near the colloidal surfaces using a new boundary condition. The renormalized charges, the counterion density profiles, and osmotic pressures can be easily calculated using the modified renormalized Jellium model. The results are compared with the ones obtained using the traditional Wigner-Seitz (WS) cell approximation also with a new boundary condition. We find that while the thermodynamic functions obtained within the renormalized Jellium model are in a good agreement with their WS counterpart, the effective charges predicted by the two theories can be significantly different.
Colla Thiago E.
Levin Yan
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