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Charge inversion in colloidal systems

Rene Messina, Christian Holm, Kurt Kremer

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0201111

Abstract

We investigate spherical macroions in the strong Coulomb coupling regime within the primitive model in salt-free environment. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to elucidate the effect of discrete macroion charge distribution on charge inversion. A systematic comparison is made with the charge inversion obtained in the conventional continuous charge distribution. Furthermore the effect of multivalent counterions is reported.

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