Kirkwood-Buff Theory:

Bridging the macroscopic to the microscopic

Speaker: Swaminath Bharadwaj

Venue: HSB 310

Date: 20th October, 2017

Time: 5:30 PM

Abstract

The Kirkwood-Buff (KB) solution theory provides a robust framework to evaluate macroscopic thermodynamic properties such as compressibility and chemical potential from microscopic pair correlation functions (radial distribution functions) and vice-versa. These relations have been used extensively in experimental and simulation studies to understand solubility and preferential interaction. In this talk, I will discuss the derivation of the theoretical framework and present some studies where it has been employed.

About the speaker

Swaminath Bharadwaj is a Ph.D research scholar of Dept.of Chemical Engineering, IITM. He is currently working jointly with Dr. Abhijit Deshpande from Chemical Engineering and Dr. P.B.Sunil Kumar from Physics on theoretical studies of thermo-responsive polymers.