Kirkwood-Buff theory of solutions

Kirkwood-Buff integrals \[G_{\alpha \beta} = \int_0^\infty \left[{\mathrm g}_{\alpha \beta}^{(2)}({\mathbf r})-1\right] 4\pi r^2 ~d{\mathbf r}\] where \({\mathrm g}_{\alpha \beta}({\mathbf r})\) is the pair distribution function.

References

Related reading

• A. Ben-Naim "Inversion of the Kirkwood–Buff theory of solutions: Application to the water–ethanol system", Journal of Chemical Physics 67 pp. 4884-4890 (1977)
• Arieh Ben-Naim "The Kirkwood–Buff integrals for one-component liquids" Journal of Chemical Physics 128 234501 (2008)
• Elizabeth A. Ploetz, Nikolaos Bentenitis, and Paul E. Smith "Kirkwood–Buff integrals for ideal solutions", Journal of Chemical Physics 132, 164501 (2010)