Charge inversion in colloidal systems
arXiv:cond-mat/0201111 · doi:10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00288-6
Abstract
We investigate spherical macroions in the strong Coulomb coupling regime within the primitive model in salt-free environment. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to elucidate the effect of macroion charge distribution on charge inversion. A systematic comparison is made with the charge inversion obtained in the conventional continuous charge distribution. Furthermore the effect of multivalent counterions is reported.
6 pages, LATEX (elsevier), 4 EPS files - Proceedings of CCP 2001 (Conference on Computational Physics 2001, Aachen, Germany 5-8 September 2001) - To appear in Computer Physics Communications