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The interaction acoustic radiation force in a standing plane wave applied to each small solid sphere in a two-particle system immersed in a viscoelastic fluid is studied in a framework based on perturbation theory. In this work, the first-…

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We have developed a simulation model to describe particle adsorption to and desorption from liquid interfaces. Using this model we formulate a closed interfacial equation of state for repulsive elastic spheres. The effect of a long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-24 Robert D. Groot , Simeon D. Stoyanov

We derive an expression for the static dielectric constant of the colloidal susp ensions based on the electrokinetic equations. The analysis assumes that the ions have the same diffusivity, and that the double layer is much thinner than the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 C. -Y. D. Lu

We describe a method to simulate the dynamics of charged colloidal particles suspended in a liquid containing dissociated ions and salt ions. Regimes of prime current interest are those of large volume fraction of colloids, highly charged…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-01-28 J. Dobnikar , D. Haložan , M. Brumen , H. -H. von Grünberg , R. Rzehak

We investigate through numerical simulations the hydrodynamic interactions between two rigid spherical particles suspended on the axis of a cylindrical tube filled with an elastoviscoplastic fluid subjected to pressure-driven flow. The…

We consider a system where a spherical particle is suspended in a nematic liquid crystal confined between two walls. We calculate the liquid-crystal mediated potential of mean force between the sphere and a substrate by means of Monte Carlo…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Evelina B. Kim , Roland Faller , Qiliang Yan , Nicholas L. Abbott , Juan J. de Pablo

A transferable potential energy function for describing the interaction between water molecules is presented. The electrostatic interaction is described rigorously using a multipole expansion. Only one expansion center is used per molecule…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 K. T. Wikfeldt , E. R. Batista , F. D. Vila , H Jonsson

We consider the electrostatic interaction between two rigid membranes, with different surface charge densities of opposite sign, across an aqueous solution without added salt. Exact solutions to the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 A. W. C. Lau , P. Pincus

The structure of cylindrical double layers is studied using a modified Poisson Boltzmann theory and the density functional approach. In the model double layer, the electrode is a cylindrical polyion that is infinitely long, impenetrable,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-18 V. Dorvilien , C. N. Patra , L. B. Bhuiyan , C. W. Outhwaite

We present exact analytical solutions for charge transfer reactions between two arbitrarily charged hard dielectric spheres. These solutions, and the corresponding exact ones for sphere-sphere interaction energies, include sums that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-02 Fredrik Lindén , Henrik Cederquist , Henning Zettergren

A quantitative analysis is presented for the stochastic interactions of a pair of Brownian hard spheres in non-adsorbing polymer solutions. The hard spheres are hypothetically trapped by optical tweezers and allowed for random motion near…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Mehdi Karzar-Jeddi , Remco Tuinier , Takashi Taniguchi , Tai-Hsi Fan

We explore the effect of steric interaction on the ionic density distribution near a charged hard wall. For weakly charged walls, small particles, and monovalent ions the mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann equation provides an excellent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 Derek Frydel , Yan Levin

We develop a fundamental theory of the long-range electrostatic interactions in two-dimensional crystals by performing a rigorous study of the nonanalyticities of the Coulomb kernel. We find that the dielectric functions are best…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Miquel Royo , Massimiliano Stengel

Recent measurements of microsphere interactions in diverse media suggest that the standard dielectric-continuum models of solution-phase interactions are fundamentally incomplete. Experiments indicate that the interactions of charged…

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The theory of elastic interaction of micron size axially symmetric colloidal particles immersed into confined nematic liquid crystal has been proposed. General formulas are obtained for the self energy of one colloidal particle and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 S. B. Chernyshuk , B. I. Lev

We study the problem of charge regulation and its effects on electrostatic interactions between dissociable charge groups immersed in a univalent electrolyte, within a family of one dimensional exactly solvable models. We consider the case…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 A. C. Maggs , R. Podgornik

We present a theory to compute the force due to light upon a particle on a dielectric plane by the Coupled Dipole Method (CDM). We show that, with this procedure, two equivalent ways of analysis are possible, both based on Maxwell's stress…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. C. Chaumet , M. Nieto-Vesperinas

We study the ionic equilibria and interactions of neutral semi-permeable spherical shells immersed in electrolyte solutions, including polyions. Although the shells are uncharged, only one type of ions of the electrolyte can permeate them,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-24 Vladimir Lobaskin , Artem N. Bogdanov , Olga I. Vinogradova

We extend the insertion approach for calculating depletion potentials to the case of non-spherical solutes. Instead of a brute-force calculation we suggest to employ the recently developed curvature expansion of density profiles close to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 P. -M. König , R. Roth , S. Dietrich

We study the response of single nanosized spherical colloids in electrolyte solution to an alternating electric field (AC field) by computer simulations. We use a coarse-grained mesoscopic simulation approach that accounts in full for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Jiajia Zhou , Friederike Schmid