Chemistry Reference
In-Depth Information
7
Concentration
Fluctuations and
Microheterogeneity
in Aqueous Mixtures
New Developments
in Analogy with
Microemulsions
Aurélien Perera
CONTENTS
7.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 164
7.2
Statistical Theory of Liquids: Conditions for the Existence of
Morphology in Liquids ................................................................................. 165
7.2.1
Correlations and Stability ................................................................. 166
7.2.1.1
Liquid State Theory for One Component Simple Liquid ... 166
7.2.1.2
Liquid State Theory for Binary Mixtures of Simple
Liquids ............................................................................... 168
7.2.2
Correlations and Fluctuations in a Simple Liquid with Repulsive
Interactions ....................................................................................... 171
7.2.3
Correlations and Fluctuations in a Simple Liquid with Attractive
Interactions ....................................................................................... 172
7.2.4
Correlations, Fluctuations, and Morphology in a Model
Complex Liquid with Spherical Interactions .................................... 174
7.3
Statistical Theory of Molecular Liquids ....................................................... 177
7.3.1
A Survey of the Formalism .............................................................. 177
7.3.2
The Molecular OZ Approach to Microheterogeneity ....................... 178
7.3.2.1
The Molecular OZ Formalism ........................................... 178
7.3.2.2
Fluctuation-Induced Phase Separation in Molecular
Binary Mixtures ................................................................. 181
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