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Molecular dynamics of nanocolloidal suspensions
Abstract Book of the XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Genova, Italy, (9-13 July 2007)
Abstract
Colloidal suspensions are common occurrences in biology and many industrial
applications. Often the suspended particles are only one to
two orders of magnitude larger than the molecules of the suspending liquid.
Such so-called nanocolloidal suspensions can exhibit interesting and
often unexpected behaviors, different from traditional colloidal
suspensions or simple liquid mixtures. Nevertheless, both concepts
applicable to typical suspensions and those relevant for liquid mixtures are
useful for such systems as well. I will present molecular dynamics
simulations of model nanocolloidal suspensions and discuss them in the
context of aggregation kinetics, clustering behavior and
transport properties.
This work was performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of
Energy by University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under
Contract No. W-7405-Eng-48.
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