Hard-sphere models mean-spherical approximation

Carnie and Chan and Blum and Henderson have calculated the capacitance for an idealized model of an electrified interface using the mean spherical approximation (MSA). The interface is considered to consist of a solution of charged hard spheres in a solvent of hard spheres with embedded point dipoles, while the electrode is considered to be a uniformly charged hard wall whose dielectric constant is equal to that of the electrolyte (so that image forces need not be considered). 

The latest models propose to represent electrolyte solutions as a collections of hard spheres of equal size, ions, immersed in a dielectric continuum, the solvent. For such a system, what is called the Mean Spherical Approximation, MSA, has been successful in estimating osmotic and mean activity coefficients for aqueous 1 1 electrolyte solutions, and has provided a reasonable fit to experimental data for dilute solutions of concentrations up to -0.3 mol dm". The advantage in this approach is that only one... 

While the McMillan-Mayer theory (Section 4) prescribes the iiabir) as functionals of the Hamiltonian of a BO-level model, little has been learned from this sort of direct approach. The main contributions are an analytical study of charged hard spheres in an uncharged hard-sphere solvent by Stell, " Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics studies of somewhat more realistic models, " " and a study using the mean spherical approximation (Section 7.3). ... 

It is possible to take into account the short range ion-ion interaction effect on the volumetric properties of electrolytes by resorting to integral equation theories, as the mean spherical approximation (MSA). The MSA model renders an analytical solution (Blum, 1975) for the umestricted primitive model of electrolytes (ions of different sizes immersed in a continuous solvent). Thus, the excess volume can be described in terms of an electrostatic contribution given by the MSA expression (Corti, 1997) and a hard sphere contribution obtained form the excess pressure of a hard sphere mixture (Mansoori et al, 1971). The only parameters of the model are the ionic diameters and numerical densities. 

The DH model (eqs 8.45 and 8.46), can also be derived from statistical mechanics as the solution of the mean spherical approximation (MSA) for an electro-neutral mixture of point ions in a continuum solvent i.e. it is an example of a MM-level model). It represents a limiting behaviour of electrolyte solutions and breaks down quickly for concentrations higher than 0.01 mol dm the extended DH model is accurate to a 0.1 mol dm . For more concentrated solutions, it is natural to consider replacing the point ions with finite-size ions this leads to the consideration of so-called primitive models (PMs), which are MM models consisting of an electro-neutral mixture of charged hard spheres in a continuum solvent. The simplest PM is the restricted primitive model (RPM) consisting of an equimolar mixture of equal-diameter charged hard spheres in a dielectic continuum i.e. p+=p = pj2, <7+ = <7 = a). 

Percus-Yevick, and the mean spherical approximations. The last of these assumes that the solvent consists of hard spheres with a long-range attractive force. It is widely applied to the modeling of solvent effects. Generalizations to multi-component fluids are straightforward. ... 

We will describe integral equation approximations for the two-particle correlation fiinctions. There is no single approximation that is equally good for all interatomic potentials in the 3D world, but the solutions for a few important models can be obtained analytically. These include the Percus-Yevick (PY) approximation [27, 28] for hard spheres and the mean spherical (MS) approximation for charged hard spheres, for hard spheres with point dipoles and for atoms interacting with a Yukawa potential. Numerical solutions for other approximations, such as the hypemetted chain (EfNC) approximation for charged systems, are readily obtained by fast Fourier transfonn methods... 

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