Discontinuous change from thermally- to geometrically- dominated effective interactions in colloidal solutions
arXiv:1608.06456 · doi:10.1039/C6SM01872F
Abstract
We report numerical results for the effective potential arising between two colloids immersed in a self-assembling cosolute which forms reversible clusters. The potential is evaluated at cosolute state points with different densities and temperatures but with the same connectivity properties. We find that the range of the resulting effective potential is controlled only by the cosolute thermal correlation length rather than by its connectivity length. We discuss the significant differences with previous results focused on cosolute forming irreversible clusters and we show that irreversible bond case represents a singular limit which cannot be accessed in equilibrium by continuously increasing the bond lifetime.
8 pages, 10 figures
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