We consider a fluid of hard spheres bearing one or two uniform circular adhesive patches, distributed so as not to overlap. Two spheres interact via a “sticky” Baxter potential if the line joining the centers of the two spheres intersects a patch on each sphere, and via a hard sphere potential otherwise. We analyze the location of the fluid-fluid transition and of the percolation line as a function of the size of the patch the fractional coverage of the sphere’s surface and of the number of patches within a virial expansion up to third order and within the first two terms C0 and C1 of a class of closures Cn hinging on a density expansion of the direct correlation function. Wefind that the locations of the two lines depend sensitively on both the total adhesive coverage and its distribution. The treatment is almost fully analytical within the chosen approximate theory. We test our findings by means of specialized Monte Carlo simulations.

Patchy sticky hard spheres: analytical study and Monte Carlo simulations

FANTONI, RICCARDO;PASTORE, GIORGIO
2007-01-01

Abstract

We consider a fluid of hard spheres bearing one or two uniform circular adhesive patches, distributed so as not to overlap. Two spheres interact via a “sticky” Baxter potential if the line joining the centers of the two spheres intersects a patch on each sphere, and via a hard sphere potential otherwise. We analyze the location of the fluid-fluid transition and of the percolation line as a function of the size of the patch the fractional coverage of the sphere’s surface and of the number of patches within a virial expansion up to third order and within the first two terms C0 and C1 of a class of closures Cn hinging on a density expansion of the direct correlation function. Wefind that the locations of the two lines depend sensitively on both the total adhesive coverage and its distribution. The treatment is almost fully analytical within the chosen approximate theory. We test our findings by means of specialized Monte Carlo simulations.
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