Structural Properties of the Fluid Mixture Confined by a Semipermeable Membrane: A Density Functional Study

Abstract

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is employed to study the structural properties of a binary fluid mixture confined by a semipermeable membrane. The influences of volume fraction and size asymmetry on three characteristic densities and excess adsorption are investigated in detail. In addition, some of our results are calculated by the analytical method, which agree well with those from the DFT calculations. These results may provide helpful clues to understand the structural properties of other complex fluids or mixture confined by semipermeable membrane.

Keywords

• structural properties
• semipermeable membrane
• binary fluid mixture
• density functional theory