Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.106, No.8, 3402-3406, 1997
Many-Body Depletion Interactions Among Protein Spheres in a Semidilute Polymer-Solution
The polymer segment distribution is shown to obey the Laplace equation for a suspension of small protein spheres and semidilute polymer. The depletion interaction is computed at all protein concentrations by introducing void distributions. Within a linear response Ansatz for the solution to the Laplace equation, the average depletion energy depends on two- and three-point void (-surface) correlation functions. It is concluded that depletion correlations of long range do not appear at high protein concentrations.
Keywords:BOVINE SERUM-ALBUMIN;2-PHASE RANDOM-MEDIA;IMPENETRABLE SPHERES;COMPUTER-SIMULATION;OSMOTIC-PRESSURE;POROUS-MEDIA;DIFFUSION;PH