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Title: Effective charges and virial pressure of concentrated macroion solutions

Abstract

The stability of colloidal suspensions is crucial in a wide variety of processes, including the fabrication of photonic materials and scaffolds for biological assemblies. The ionic strength of the electrolyte that suspends charged colloids is widely used to control the physical properties of colloidal suspensions. The extensively used two-body Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) approach allows for a quantitative analysis of the effective electrostatic forces between colloidal particles. DLVO relates the ionic double layers, which enclose the particles, to their effective electrostatic repulsion. Nevertheless, the double layer is distorted at high macroion volume fractions. Therefore, DLVO cannot describe the many-body effects that arise in concentrated suspensions. In this paper, we show that this problem can be largely resolved by identifying effective point charges for the macroions using cell theory. This extrapolated point charge (EPC) method assigns effective point charges in a consistent way, taking into account the excluded volume of highly charged macroions at any concentration, and thereby naturally accounting for high volume fractions in both salt-free and added-salt conditions. We provide an analytical expression for the effective pair potential and validate the EPC method by comparing molecular dynamics simulations of macroions and monovalent microions that interact via Coulombic potentials to simulations ofmore » macroions interacting via the derived EPC effective potential. The simulations reproduce the macroion-macroion spatial correlation and the virial pressure obtained with the EPC model. Finally, our findings provide a route to relate the physical properties such as pressure in systems of screened Coulomb particles to experimental measurements.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1]
  1. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  2. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Univ. Autonoma de San Luis Potosi (Mexico)
  3. Univ. of Utrecht (Netherlands)
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Research Org.:
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science (CBES)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1349033
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0000989
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 112; Journal Issue: 30; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; colloids; DLVO; macroions; electrolytes; cell model

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Boon, Niels, Guerrero-García, Guillermo Ivan, van Roij, René, and Olvera de la Cruz, Monica. Effective charges and virial pressure of concentrated macroion solutions. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1511798112.
Boon, Niels, Guerrero-García, Guillermo Ivan, van Roij, René, & Olvera de la Cruz, Monica. Effective charges and virial pressure of concentrated macroion solutions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511798112
Boon, Niels, Guerrero-García, Guillermo Ivan, van Roij, René, and Olvera de la Cruz, Monica. Mon . "Effective charges and virial pressure of concentrated macroion solutions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511798112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1349033.
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title = {Effective charges and virial pressure of concentrated macroion solutions},
author = {Boon, Niels and Guerrero-García, Guillermo Ivan and van Roij, René and Olvera de la Cruz, Monica},
abstractNote = {The stability of colloidal suspensions is crucial in a wide variety of processes, including the fabrication of photonic materials and scaffolds for biological assemblies. The ionic strength of the electrolyte that suspends charged colloids is widely used to control the physical properties of colloidal suspensions. The extensively used two-body Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) approach allows for a quantitative analysis of the effective electrostatic forces between colloidal particles. DLVO relates the ionic double layers, which enclose the particles, to their effective electrostatic repulsion. Nevertheless, the double layer is distorted at high macroion volume fractions. Therefore, DLVO cannot describe the many-body effects that arise in concentrated suspensions. In this paper, we show that this problem can be largely resolved by identifying effective point charges for the macroions using cell theory. This extrapolated point charge (EPC) method assigns effective point charges in a consistent way, taking into account the excluded volume of highly charged macroions at any concentration, and thereby naturally accounting for high volume fractions in both salt-free and added-salt conditions. We provide an analytical expression for the effective pair potential and validate the EPC method by comparing molecular dynamics simulations of macroions and monovalent microions that interact via Coulombic potentials to simulations of macroions interacting via the derived EPC effective potential. The simulations reproduce the macroion-macroion spatial correlation and the virial pressure obtained with the EPC model. Finally, our findings provide a route to relate the physical properties such as pressure in systems of screened Coulomb particles to experimental measurements.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1511798112},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 30,
volume = 112,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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