title: An improved thermodynamic perturbation theory for square-well m-point model of the patchy colloids.
abstract: We propose an improved version of Wertheim's first order thermodynamic perturbation theory for the square-well m-point model of patchy colloids. Our version of the theory takes into account changes in the free volume of the system due to bond formation. The new theory is a significant improvement, giving good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations of the model.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Svientsitskoho 1, 79011 Lviv, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Y V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Kalyuzhnyi
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Hlushak
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Cummings