Gas-liquid phase separation in oppositely charged colloids: stability and interfacial tension.

J Chem Phys

Soft Condensed Matter, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584CC Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Published: September 2006

We study the phase behavior and the interfacial tension of the screened Coulomb (Yukawa) restricted primitive model (YRPM) of oppositely charged hard spheres with diameter sigma using Monte Carlo simulations. We determine the gas-liquid and gas-solid phase transitions using free energy calculations and grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulations for varying inverse Debye screening length kappa. We find that the gas-liquid phase separation is stable for kappasigma

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