In this work, we present a review of recently achieved progress in the field of soft condensed
matter physics, and in particular on the study of the static properties of solutions or …

This review summarizes and assesses recent theoretical and experimental advances, with
special emphasis on the effective interaction between charge-stabilized colloids, in the bulk …

Electrostatic correlations play an important role in physics, chemistry and biology. In
plasmas they result in thermodynamic instability similar to the liquid–gas phase transition of …

We study the phase behavior and structure of highly asymmetric binary hard-sphere
mixtures. By first integrating out the degrees of freedom of the small spheres in the partition …

Density (or state) dependent pair potentials arise naturally from coarse-graining procedures
in many areas of condensed matter science. However, correctly using them to calculate …

In this review we present a summary of recent progress achieved in examining the
equilibrium and dynamical properties of concentrated solutions of two novel kinds of soft …

Dilute or semidilute solutions of nonintersecting self-avoiding walk (SAW) polymer chains
are mapped onto a fluid of “soft” particles interacting via an effective pair potential between …

Abstract Model systems of charged spherical macroions with either monovalent, divalent, or
trivalent counterions interacting solely through hard-core and Coulomb forces have been …

A novel mechanism for counterion-mediated attraction between like-charged spherical
macroions is proposed, which originates from a depletion zone of counterions between …

A careful analysis of the classic Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek theory of the
interaction energy in a suspension of charge-stabilized, spherical colloidal particles …