Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 75, Number 6, September 2006
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Page(s) | 978 - 984 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10209-3 | |
Published online | 23 August 2006 |
Capillary attraction of charged particles at a curved liquid interface
CPMOH, CNRS-Université Bordeaux 1 - 351 cours de la Libération 33405 Talence, France
Received:
26
June
2006
Accepted:
27
July
2006
A recent experiment revealed the existence of an attractive pair potential of
colloidal particles trapped on water droplets in an oil phase (Nikolaides M. G. et al., Nature 420, (2002) 299). We show that such a capillary
attraction occurs for stronlgy charged particles at a curved interface, due to
the incomplete compensation of the interface pressure and the counterforce on
the particle. This attractive force varies as Z4 with the bare valency,
and as with the ratio of particle size a0 and droplet
radius R; it vanishes in the limit
, i.e., for a flat interface.
PACS: 82.70.-y – Disperse systems; complex fluids
© EDP Sciences, 2006
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