From Over-charging to Like-charge Attraction in the Weak Coupling Regime

Details From Over-charging to Like-charge Attraction in the Weak Coupling Regime From Over-charging to Like-charge Attraction in the Weak Coupling Regime

2011-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2072v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 3 eps figures

Scientific paper

Despite decades of intensive studies, the effective interactions between strongly charged colloids still remain elusive. Here we show that a strongly charged surface with a layer of condensed counter- ions behaves effectively as a conductor, due to the mobile nature of the condensed ions. An external source charge in its vicinity is therefore attracted towards the surface, due to the image charge effect. This mechanism leads to correlational energies for counter-ions condensed on two distinct surfaces, as well as for free ions in the bulk. Generalizing Debye-Huckel theory and image charge methods, we analytically calculate these correlation energies for the two-plates problem, at the iso-electric point, where condensed counterions precisely balance the bare surface charges. At this point, the effective interaction between two plates is always attractive at small separation and repulsive at large separation.

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