Like-charged colloidal spheres dispersed in de-ionized water are supposed to repel each other. Instead, artifact-corrected video microscopy measurements reveal an anomalous long-ranged like-charge attraction in the interparticle pair potential when the spheres are confined to a layer by even a single-charged glass surface. These attractions can be masked by electrostatic repulsions at low ionic strengths. Coating the bounding surfaces with a conducting gold layer suppresses the attraction. These observations suggest a possible mechanism for the anomalous confinement-induced attractions.
Colloidal electrostatic interactions near a conducting surface.
Published 2006 in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
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2006
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Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
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2006-05-02
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Materials Science, Physics, Medicine
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