Self-image interactions

Again, in a very diluted electrolyte solution, the major contribution will make the self-image interaction. The self-image interaction potential can be defined on the basis of the fluctuation potential as [7,18]... 

Numerical calculations can be carried out on the basis of Eqs. (70)-(74), and to show the influence of the image forces on the disjoining pressure between two plates, we will compare these results with the frequently used expression in Eq. (75). We have still to adhere to the approximations accepted in the text, and, first of all, the bulk electrolyte concentration c0 = 1 mmol/L will be chosen. For this concentration the Bierrum (or plasma) parameter is n — ky q = 0.04, and, as a consequence, for characteristic interparticle distances of a colloid domain the relationship a = Kr /x is much smaller than one. This allows to simplify our equations sufficiently leading to the final expression for the disjoining pressure, where the dominant role plays the self-image interaction... 

If the simulated system uses periodic boundary conditions, the logical long-range interaction includes a lattice sum over all particles with all their images. Apart from some obvious and resolvable corrections for self-energy and for image interaction between excluded pairs, the question has been raised if one really wishes to enhance the effect of the artificial boundary conditions by including lattice sums. The effect of the periodic conditions should at least be evaluated by simulation with different box sizes or by continuum corrections, if applicable (see below). 

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Fig. 34 Kinetics of association and dissociation for conventional and self-protected interactions, (a) Conventional scheme (Fig. 33a). Red lines and right axis represent temperature as a function of the elapsed time, while symbols and the left axis are the corresponding particle singlet fraction at fast (blue) or slow black) temperature quench. The insets show microscopy images of isolated or aggregated particles, (b) Self-protected scheme (Fig. 33c). Particle singlet fraction as a function of time at fixed temperature profile (red line), but at different overall particle concentrations for dilute colloids, intra-particle hybridization prevents aggregation, while at higher c the interparticle diffusion competes with hairpin formation. Adapted with permission from [140]...

The upper sign corresponds to a water-dielectric , and the lower one to a water-conductor type of interface. Equation (7) shows that a charge located next to a conductor will be attracted by its own image, and dielectrics in aqueous solutions will repel it. For a review of statistical-mechanical models of the double layer near a single interface we refer to [7], and here we would like only to illustrate how the image forces will alter the ion concentration and the electrostatic potential distribution next to a single wall. At a low electrolyte concentration the self-image forces will mostly dominate, and the ion-surface interaction will only be affected by the polarization due... 

To study the self-image effect on the interaction between two plates, we will develop a linear theory with respect to the plasma parameter with kt1 = (SncoPBe2 / e)1/2, where k-1 is the Debye length, and cq is the electrolyte concentration in solution. According to this approximation, all the higher distribution functions (gapy, etc.) are represented via the correlation function as (see, for example, [19])... 

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The simplest simulated system is a Stockmayer fluid structureless particles characterized by dipole-dipole and Lennard-Jones interactions, moving in a box (size L) with periodic botmdary conditions. The results described below were obtained using 400 such particles and in addition a solute atom A which can become an ion of charge q embedded in this solvent. The long range nature of the electrostatic interactions is handled within the effective dielectric environment seheme. In this approach the simulated system is taken to be surrounded by a continuum dielectric environment whose dielectric constant e is to be chosen self consistently with that eomputed from the simulation. Accordingly, the electrostatic potential between any two partieles is supplemented by the image interaction associated with a spherical dielectric boundary of radius (taken equal to L/2) placed so that one of these... 

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