A GENERAL-SOLUTION OF THE MOLECULAR ORNSTEIN-ZERNIKE EQUATION FOR SPHERES WITH ANISOTROPIC ADHESION AND ELECTRIC MULTIPOLES

We present the analytic solution of the molecular Ornstein-Zernike equation for a very general closure in which the direct correlation function is of the form suggested by the mean-spherical approximation for arbitrary multipolar interactions and the total correlation function contains terms that arise in the Percus-Yevick approximation for spheres with anisotropic surface adhesion. In addition to generalizing several earlier analyses of special cases of this closure, the solution presented here contains new simplifying insights that reduce the complexity of the resulting algebraic equations. A special case of the analysis is described to illustrate the method of solution. © 1990 American Institute of Physics J. Chem. Phys. 92 (6), 15 March 1990.