The solvent mediated force between the hard sphere colloids in Smith-Mezbed
a solvent is studied by means of the Percus-Yevick approximation. The oscil
latory structure of the potential of mean force is found to be diminished w
ith decreasing temperature. The agreement of the theory with simulation dat
a is sufficiently well. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rig
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