Density profiles and solvation forces for a Yukawa fluid in a slit pore |
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Authors: | Karanikas S Dzubiella J Moncho-Jordá A Louis A A |
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Affiliation: | Molecular Thermodynamics and Modelling of Materials Laboratory, Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," GR-153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, Attikis, Greece. |
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Abstract: | The effect of varying wall-particle and particle-particle interactions on the density profiles near a single wall and the solvation forces between two walls immersed in a fluid of particles is investigated by grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Attractive and repulsive particle-particle and particle-wall interactions are modeled by a versatile hard-core Yukawa form. These simulation results are compared to theoretical calculations using the hypernetted chain integral equation technique, as well as with fundamental measure density functional theory (DFT), where particle-particle interactions are either treated as a first order perturbation using the radial distribution function or else with a DFT based on the direct-correlation function. All three theoretical approaches reproduce the main trends fairly well, but exhibit inconsistent accuracy, particularly for attractive particle-particle interactions. We show that the wall-particle and particle-particle attractions can couple together to induce a nonlinear enhancement of the adsorption and a related "repulsion through attraction" effect for the effective wall-wall forces. We also investigate the phenomenon of bridging, where an attractive wall-particle interaction induces strongly attractive solvation forces. |
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