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Onsager’s paper on the effect of shape on the interaction of colloidal particles is seminal in many ways. I shall focus on two aspects: it is (to my knowledge) the earliest classical density functional theory, and it demonstrates the possibility of ordering transitions driven by entropy
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Frenkel, D. (2000). Perspective on “The effect of shape on the interaction of colloidal particles”. In: Cramer, C.J., Truhlar, D.G. (eds) Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10421-7_13
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