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Electrical double layer (EDL) is formed when an electrode is in contact with an electrolyte solution, and is widely used in biophysics, electrochemistry, polymer solution and energy storage. Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) coupled equations provides…

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We present a theory of the hydrodynamic forces in the drainage flow of an electrolyte between a sphere and a plane with charged surfaces. Our theory considers a thin electrolyte film which is at all times in local equilibrium across its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-01 C. Cramail , R. Lhermerout , E. Charlaix

We consider an osmotic equilibrium between bulk solutions of polyelectrolyte bounded by semipermeable membranes and separated by a thin film of salt-free liquid. Although the membranes are neutral, the counter-ions of the polyelectrolyte…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-19 Olga I. Vinogradova , Lyderic Bocquet , Artem N. Bogdanov , Roumen Tsekov , Vladimir Lobaskin

We investigate the system constituted by a polarizable atom near a nanosphere under the influence of an external electrostatic field, showing that the attractive dispersive force between them can be overcome by the electrostatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 P. P. Abrantes , V. Pessanha , Reinaldo de Melo e Souza , C. Farina

The organization of water molecules and ions between charged mineral surfaces determines the stability of colloidal suspensions and the strength of phase-separated particulate gels. In this article we assemble a density functional that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-15 Thomas Petersen

Electrostatic interactions between point charges embedded into interfaces separating dielectric media are omnipresent in soft matter systems and often control their stability. Such interactions are typically complicated and do not resemble…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-09 Alexander Morozov , Iain Muntz , Job H. J. Thijssen , Davide Marenduzzo

We study the low-frequency dielectric response of highly charged spheres arranged in a cubic lattice and immersed in an electrolyte solution. We focus on the influence of the out-of-phase current in the regime where the ionic charge is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-27 Chang-Yu Hou , Jiang Qian , Denise E. Freed

The electrostatic force on a spherical particle near a planar surface is calculated for the cases of a uniform electric field applied in either normal or tangential direction to the surface. The particle and suspending media are assumed to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Zhanwen Wang , Michael J. Miksis , Petia M. Vlahovska

We extend the classical Gouy-Chapman model of two planar parallel interacting double-layers, which is used as a first approximation to describe the force between colloidal particles, by considering the finite-thickness of the colloids. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Aldemar Torres , Rene van Roij , Gabriel Tellez

We study the depletion interaction between spherical particles of radius R immersed in a dilute solution of rigid rods of length L. The computed interaction potential is, within numerical accuracy, exact for any value of L/R. In particular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Yaman , C. Jeppesen , C. M. Marques

By using the recently generalized version of Newton Shell Theorem [3] analytical equations are derived to calculate the electric interaction energy between two charged spheres, a small one is located within a larger one, and each sphere is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-13 István P. Sugár

We measure interaction forces between pairs of charged PMMA colloidal particles suspended in a relatively low-polar medium (5 $\lesssim \epsilon \lesssim$ 8) directly from the deviations of particle positions inside two time-shared optical…

When an electric field is applied to an electrolyte-saturated polymer gel embedded with charged colloidal particles, the force that must be exerted by the hydrogel on each particle reflects a delicate balance of electrical, hydrodynamic and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Reghan J. Hill , Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

We study hydrodynamic interactions of spherical particles in incident Poiseuille flow in a channel with infinite planar walls. The particles are suspended in a Newtonian fluid, and creeping-flow conditions are assumed. Numerical results,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

Two overall neutral surfaces with positive and negative charged domains ("patches") have been shown in recent experiments to exhibit long-range attraction when immersed in an ionic solution. Motivated by the experiments, we calculate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Ram M. Adar , David Andelman , Haim Diamant

We develop an efficient Ewald method of molecular dynamics simulation for calculating the electrostatic interactions among charged and polar particles between parallel metallic plates, where we may apply an electric field with an arbitrary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-01 Kyohei Takae , Akira Onuki

Forces between charged silica particles in solutions of multivalent coions are measured with colloidal probe technique based on atomic force microscopy. The concentration of 1:z electrolytes is systematically varied to understand the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-08 Biljana Uzelac , Valentina Valmacco , Gregor Trefalt

We explore the force generation and surface interactions arising when electric fields are applied across fluid films. Using a surface force balance (SFB) we measure directly the force between two electrodes in crossed-cylinder geometry…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-09 Carla Perez-Martinez , Susan Perkin

We describe arrangements of ions capable of producing short-range attractive interactions between pairs of charged colloidal spheres in the low temperature strongly correlated limit. For particles of radius $R$ with bare charge $Z$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Francisco J. Solis , Monica Olvera de la Cruz

We consider the interactions between two uncharged planar macroscopic surfaces immersed in an electrolyte solution which are induced by interfacial selectivity. These forces are taken into account by introducing a depletion free-energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. N. Tamashiro , P. Pincus