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Generally the steric effect was modeled to correct the Helmholtz free energy either through its internal energy or entropy, and an overview is given here. The Bikerman model, based on adding solvent entropy to the free energy through the concept of volume exclusion, is a rather popular steric-effect model nowadays. However, ion sizes are treated as identical in the Bikerman model, making an extension of the Bikerman model to include specific ion sizes desirable. Directly replacing the ions of non-specific size by specific ones in the model seems natural and has been accepted by many researchers in this field. However, this straightforward modification does not have a free energy formula to support it. Here modifications of the Bikerman model to include specific ion sizes have been developed iteratively, and such a model is achieved with a guarantee that: (1) it can approach Boltzmann distribution at diluteness; (2) it can reach saturation limit as the reciprocal of specific ion size under extreme electrostatic conditions; (3) its entropy can be derived by mean-field lattice gas model.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e22060632","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,9]],"date-time":"2020-06-09T04:19:39Z","timestamp":1591676379000},"page":"632","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Review and Modification of Entropy Modeling for Steric Effects in the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Tzyy-Leng","family":"Horng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Mathematics, Feng Chia University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"149903","DOI":"10.1103\/PhysRevLett.109.149903","article-title":"Double layer in ionic liquids: Overscreening versus crowding","volume":"109","author":"Bazant","year":"2012","journal-title":"Phys. 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