Square-well fluid modelling of protein liquid-vapor coexistence

摘要

The investigation of colloid phase behavior has been asubject of long-standing interest in many disciplines rangingfrom medicine and biophysics to material science.1-10 It iswell known that the phase diagrams of colloidal particlesdepend strongly on effective attraction between them; therange and strength of this attractive interaction may be con-trolled by the solvent properties, characteristic, and concen-tration of the additives (polymers or salts).7-11 A simplestmodel describing this effective interaction is the square-well(SW) potential,-17