Osmotic Pressure and Other Thermodynamic Properties of a Ceramic Suspension

1 Osmotic Pressure (and Other Thermodynamic Properties) of a Ceramic Suspension 

This derivation has been taken from the book Colloidal Dispersions by Russel, Saville, and Schowalter [30]. The thermodynamic properties of a ssrstem can be evaluated from the Helmholtz free energy, A, as a function of the volume and temperature  

FIGURE 11j8 Root mean square (mis) cell size versus volume fraction for various widths of a log-normal particle size distribution with geometric mean diameter 0.1 pm,. I/O = 100 mV, 0.001 M KCl (a) r = 0.75, (b) = 0.5, (c) rr = 0.25, (d) r, = 0.15. Note  

These thermod5uiamic functions can be related directly to the inter- 

The hard sphere interaction energy is an accurate approximation for short-range interactions between particles. This occurs when we have steric stabilization [33,34] due to polymer adsorption and electrostatic stabilization with a thin double layer [35,36] (i.e., high ionic 

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