Van der Waals-like instability in suspensions of mutually repelling charged colloids

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作者
vanRoij, R
Hansen, JP
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[1] Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (URA 1325 du CNRS), Lyon Cedex 07, 69364, 46, Allée d’Italie
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3082
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We show theoretically that the purely repulsive screened-Coulomb (or Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek) interaction between charged colloidal particles is compatible with gas-liquid, gas-solid, and solid-solid coexistence in colloidal suspensions of low ionic strength of about 10(-6) mol/liter. This finding may partially resolve the ongoing debate on attractions between like-charged particles.
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页码:3082 / 3085
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