Depletion interactions of non-spherical colloidal particles in polymer solutions

Details Depletion interactions of non-spherical colloidal particles in polymer solutions Depletion interactions of non-spherical colloidal particles in polymer solutions

2005-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501432v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/17/20/005

We consider anisotropic colloidal particles immersed in a solution of long, flexible, and nonadsorbing polymers. For the dumbbell shapes of recently synthesized particles consisting of two intersecting spheres and for lens-shaped particles with spherical surfaces we calculate the isotropic and anisotropic interaction parameters that determine the immersion free energy and the orientation-dependent depletion interaction between particles that are induced by the polymers. Exact results are obtained for random-walk like (ideal) polymer chains.

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