Three-body interactions in colloidal systems

Details Three-body interactions in colloidal systems Three-body interactions in colloidal systems

2008-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/0801.3922v1

Phys.Rev. E 69 (3) 031402 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.031402

We present the first direct measurement of three-body interactions in a colloidal system comprised of three charged colloidal particles. Two of the particles have been confined by means of a scanned laser tweezers to a line-shaped optical trap where they diffused due to thermal fluctuations. Upon the approach of a third particle, attractive three-body interactions have been observed. The results are in qualitative agreement with additionally performed nonlinear Poissson-Boltzmann calculations, which also allow us to investigate the microionic density distributions in the neighborhood of the interacting colloidal particles.

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