On the possibility of extending the Nore-Frenkel generalized law of correspondent states to non-isotropic patchy interactions

Abstract

Colloidal systems (and protein solutions) are often characterized by attractive interactions whose range is much smaller than the particle size. When this is the case and the interaction is spherical, systems obey a generalized law of correspondent states (GLCS), first proposed by Noro and Frenkel [ J.Chem.Phys. 113, 2941 (2000) ]. The thermodynamic properties become insensitive to the details of the potential, depending only on the value of the second virial coefficient B_2 and the density $\rho$. The GLCS does not generically hold for the case of non-spherical potentials. In this Letter we suggest that when particles interact via short-ranged small-angular amplitude patchy interactions (so that the condition of only one bond per patch is fulfilled) it is still possible to generalize the GLCS close to the liquid-gas critical point. Keywords: Colloids, Second Virial Coefficient, Proteins interactions, Short-ranged attractive attractions.

11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication on J. Phys. Chem. B

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