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Understanding Liquid/Colloids Composites with Mesoscopic Simulations

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The study of complex fluids and soft materials contains a number of basic conceptual and practical challenges. The most basic difficulties are related to the fact that different length and time scales compete, making it impractical to carry out first principles modeling of these materials [1]. Colloidal particles are rigid molecular aggregates of sizes varying between a few nanometers and a micron. As a result, they are at least one order of magnitude larger than the molecules that characterize the solvent they are suspended in. Colloids move at smaller velocities than solvent molecules as a result of their size mismatch, and hence their characteristic time scales are also orders of magnitude larger than solvent ones. Moreover, colloid interactions also differ qualitatively from their molecular counterparts. Although they derive from the specific atomic interactions among the atoms that constitute the colloids, the fact that colloids are made of thousands of atoms implies that the effective strength is typically of a few times the characteristic thermal energy, kBT, at room temperature, with kB referring to the Boltzmann constant [2].

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Pagonabarraga, I. (2007). Understanding Liquid/Colloids Composites with Mesoscopic Simulations. In: Zvelindovsky, A.V. (eds) Nanostructured Soft Matter. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6330-5_19

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