Origin of long-ranged attraction between like-charged particles at water-air interface
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The nature of electrostatic interaction between like-charged particles at water-air interface is analyzed in this paper. We show that long-ranged electrostatic dipolar attraction between these objects generally exists. Our result provides a natural mechanism to explain the experimental observations of attraction between like-charge species trapped at water-air interface. We speculate that a similar (but presumably weaker) mechanism also exists for particles near water-solid interface.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0703667,
title = {Origin of long-ranged attraction between like-charged particles at water-air interface},
author = {Yi Zhou and Tai-Kai Ng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0703667},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures