title: Coarse-graining intermolecular interactions in dispersions of highly charged colloids.
abstract: Effective pair potentials between charged colloids, obtained from Monte Carlo simulations of two single colloids in a closed cell at the primitive model level, are shown to reproduce accurately the structure of aqueous salt-free colloidal dispersions, as determined from full primitive model simulations by Linse et al. (Linse, P.; Lobaskin, V. Electrostatic Attraction and Phase Separation in Solutions of Like-Charged Colloidal Particles. Phys. Rev. Lett.1999, 83, 4208). Excellent agreement is obtained even when ion-ion correlations are important and is in principle not limited to spherical particles, providing a potential route to coarse-grained colloidal interactions in more complex systems.
authors.affiliation: ICB, UMR 6303 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. martin.turesson@u-bourgogne.fr
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Turesson
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jönsson
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Labbez