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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-16
pubmed:abstractText
We put forth the idea of treating coexisting phases as a composite system and express its free energy as the average of its constitutent free energies weighted by their respective volume proportions. As a result, the theoretical study of charged colloidal phase separation in the presence of electrolytes reduces to optimizing solely the entities pertaining to colloids and small ions. As concrete illustrations, we demarcated the boundaries of coexisting phases for the simplest colloidal dispersion driven by salts at moderate to high concentrations and compared the results with those obtained in the usual manner to numerically show the robust efficiency of the present theory. Also, for a charged colloidal dispersion at very low ionic strength, we crosshatched both the homogeneous one phase and coexisting phases, and used the domains of coexisting phases to interpret an anomalous "transition" of phase diagrams exhibited in dilute colloidal dispersions induced by salts on dilution.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1539-3755
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
70
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
051402
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Domains of phase separation in a charged colloidal dispersion driven by electrolytes.
pubmed:affiliation
Complex Liquids Laboratory, Department of Physics, National Central University, Chungli 320, Taiwan, Republic of China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article