Effective Interactions between Multilayered Ionic Microgels
- Author(s)
- Clemens Hanel, Christos N. Likos, Ronald Blaak
- Abstract
Using a one-component reduction formalism, we calculate the effective interactions and the counterion density profiles for microgels that feature a multilayered shell structure. We follow a strategy that involves second order perturbation theory and obtain analytical expressions for the effective interactions by modeling the layers of the particles as linear superpostion of homogeneously charged spheres. The general method is applied to the important case of core–shell microgels and compared with the well-known results for a microgel that can be approximated by a macroscopic, and homogeneously charged, spherical macroion.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- Journal
- Materials - Open Access Journal
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 7689-7705
- No. of pages
- 17
- ISSN
- 1996-1944
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ma7127689
- Publication date
- 2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103036 Theoretical physics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/849dfda4-4561-44d9-8a0a-e1cce2adc2e1