Harmonic repulsion potential

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The Harmonic repulsion potential, designed for studies of polymer micelles, dendrimers, and colloidal particles, is given by ([1] Eq. 2):

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where is the intermolecular pair potential, is the distance between site 1 and site 2. represents a length scale and an energy. For example, for Failed to parse (Conversion error. Server ("https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_") reported: "Cannot get mml. Server problem."): {\displaystyle \epsilon =20} the potential looks like

Phase diagram[edit]

The phase diagram in the pressure-temperature plane has been calculated by Zhu and Lu [2].

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