https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/e2005-00056-3
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A van der Waals free energy in electrolytes revisited
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université de Paris-Sud, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8627 CNRS, Bâtiment 210, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
Received:
4
July
2005
Published online:
27
December
2005
A system of three electrolytes separated by two parallel planes is considered. Each region is described by a dielectric constant and a Coulomb fluid in the Debye-Hückel regime. In their book Dispersion Forces, Mahanty and Ninham have given the van der Waals free energy of this system. We rederive this free energy by a different method, using linear response theory and the electrostatic Maxwell stress tensor for obtaining the dispersion force.
© EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag, 2006
