The interaction between colloids in polar mixtures above Tc

Details The interaction between colloids in polar mixtures above Tc The interaction between colloids in polar mixtures above Tc

2012-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3535v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

We calculate the interaction potential between two colloids immersed in an aqueous mixture containing salt near or above the critical temperature. We find an attractive interaction far from the coexistence curve due to the combination of preferential solvent adsorption at the colloids' surface and preferential ion solvation. We show that the ion-specific interaction strongly depends on the amount of salt added as well as on the mixture composition. Our results are in accord with recent experiments. For a highly antagonistic salt of hydrophilic anions and hydrophobic cations, a repulsive interaction at an intermediate inter-colloid distance is predicted even though both the electrostatic and adsorption forces alone are attractive.

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