using the gaussian 2003 software and mp2/ 6–311 ++ g** method for he: he, ne:ne andmp2/6-31g method for ar: ar, kr: kr and hf/sto-3g method for xe: xe, the optimizedinteraction energies between two like atoms of rare gases (he, ne, ar, kr and xe) as a functionof the distances between the centers of two considered atoms were evaluated and the resultswere interpreted according to the lennard – jo...

A method is presented for determining second virial coefficients (B(2)) of protein solutions from retention time measurements in size exclusion chromatography. We determine B(2) by analyzing the concentration dependence of the chromatographic partition coefficient. We show the ability of this method to track the evolution of B(2) from positive to negative values in lysozyme and bovine serum alb...

The relevance of neglecting three- and four-body interactions in the coarse-grained version of the Asakura-Oosawa model is examined. A mapping between the first few virial coefficients of the binary nonadditive hard-sphere mixture representative of this model and those arising from the coarse-grained (pairwise) depletion potential approximation allows for a quantitative evaluation of the effect...