Zusammenfassung
A review with 76 refs. The integral equation approxns. of modern statistical mechanics are shown to be efficient for describing the mol. architectures in liqs. at the nanometer scale. Simplified formalisms of this type can be used to calc. thermodn. quantities such as mean activity coeffs. and vapor pressures, or transport coeffs. Finally, various applications of the computed spatial ...
Zusammenfassung
A review with 76 refs. The integral equation approxns. of modern statistical mechanics are shown to be efficient for describing the mol. architectures in liqs. at the nanometer scale. Simplified formalisms of this type can be used to calc. thermodn. quantities such as mean activity coeffs. and vapor pressures, or transport coeffs. Finally, various applications of the computed spatial correlations among the mols. are discussed. Very encouraging results already obtained and possible new developments are examd. in the domains of mol. recognition, conformational anal., ordering in ferrofluids, and self-assembling of mols.