Depletion forces between two spheres in a rod solution

Details Depletion forces between two spheres in a rod solution Depletion forces between two spheres in a rod solution

1997-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9708069v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages including figures. 5 eps figures. LaTeX with REVTeX

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i1998-00227-1

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 we find that for L of order R, the depth of the depletion well is smaller than the prediction of the Derjaguin approximation. Our results bring new light into the discussion on the lack of phase separation in colloidal mixtures of spheres and rods.

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