The phase behavior of charged colloidal systems in the mean spherical approximation
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The mean spherical approximation ~MSA! was used to investigate the phase behavior of charged colloidal systems with and without added salt. The competition between cohesive Coulomb interactions and stabilizing entropic and hard-core interactions controls the stability of the system and under certain circumstances, a liquid–gas-type phase transition can occur. The critical parameters and phase diagrams in the MSA obtained via the internal energy path, are compared with two-component Monte Carlo simulations and other theoretical approaches. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1469606#
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