Monte Carlo simulation of impurity effects on particle clustering in the supporting solvent

A Monte Carlo study of a binary mixture of extended spheres shows how the concentration and/or size of impurities in a solvent changes the continuum percolation behavior in the latter. Impurity particles promote solvent clustering (percolation) at small impurity concentration and obstruct it at high concentration. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Clustering; Conductivity; Impurity; Mixture; Percolation; Simulation Binary mixtures; Electric conductivity; Impurities; Intelligent systems; Mixtures; Percolation (solid state); Solvents; Clustering; Continuum percolation; Impurities in; Impurity concentration; Impurity effect; Impurity particles; Particle clustering; Simulation; Monte Carlo methods; solvent; analytic method; article; chemical parameters; chemical procedures; concentration (parameters); Monte Carlo method; simulation

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