Exact mean field theory solution, plate macroions

The Exact Mean Field Theory Solution for Plate Macroions... 

Before setting out on the exact mean field theory solution to the one-dimensional colloid problem, I wish to emphasize that the existence of the reversible phase transition in the n-butylammonium vermiculite system provides decisive evidence in favor of our model. The calculations presented in this chapter are deeply rooted in their agreement with the experimental facts on the best-studied system of plate macroions, the n-butylammonium vermiculite system [3], We now proceed to construct the exact mean field theory solution to the problem in terms of adiabatic pah-potentials of both the Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies. It is the one-dimensional nature of the problem that renders the exact solution possible. 

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