Understanding Depletion Forces beyond Entropy
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Understanding Depletion Forces beyond Entropy
The effective interaction energy of a colloidal sphere in a suspension containing small amounts of nonionic polymers and a flat glass surface has been measured and calculated using total internal reflection microscopy and a novel approach within density functional theory, respectively. Quantitative agreement between experiment and theory demonstrates that the resulting repulsive part of the dep...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.83.3960