We critically discuss the application of the Wertheims theory to classes of complex associating fluids that can be today engineered in the laboratory as patchy colloids and to the prediction of their peculiar gas-liquid phase diagrams. Our systematic study, stemming from perturbative version of the theory, allows us to show that, even at the simplest level of approximation for the inter-cluster correlations, the theory is still able to provide a consistent and stable picture of the behaviour of interesting models of self-assembling colloidal suspension. We extend the analysis of a few cases of patchy systems recently introduced in the literature. In particular, we discuss for the first time in detail the consistency of the structural description underlying the perturbative approach and we are able to prove a consistency relationship between the valence as obtained from thermodynamics and from the structure for the one-site case. A simple analytical expression for the structure factor is proposed.
Wertheim perturbation theory: Thermodynamics and structure of patchy colloids
Pastore G.
2015-01-01
Abstract
We critically discuss the application of the Wertheims theory to classes of complex associating fluids that can be today engineered in the laboratory as patchy colloids and to the prediction of their peculiar gas-liquid phase diagrams. Our systematic study, stemming from perturbative version of the theory, allows us to show that, even at the simplest level of approximation for the inter-cluster correlations, the theory is still able to provide a consistent and stable picture of the behaviour of interesting models of self-assembling colloidal suspension. We extend the analysis of a few cases of patchy systems recently introduced in the literature. In particular, we discuss for the first time in detail the consistency of the structural description underlying the perturbative approach and we are able to prove a consistency relationship between the valence as obtained from thermodynamics and from the structure for the one-site case. A simple analytical expression for the structure factor is proposed.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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