Issue 23, 2012

Absolute electrostatic force between two charged particles in a low dielectric solvent

Abstract

It is shown that a recently developed analytical solution to the problem of how two charged particles of a dielectric material interact with one another, gives excellent quantitative agreement with experimental measurements of the force between pairs of charged particles in a non-polar solvent. The theory shows how the presence of a dynamic surface charge distribution may moderate the repulsion between interacting particles, and allow them to accommodate more charge than would be estimated from a calculation of the bare Coulomb force.

Graphical abstract: Absolute electrostatic force between two charged particles in a low dielectric solvent

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Mar 2012
Accepted
27 Apr 2012
First published
14 May 2012
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Soft Matter, 2012,8, 6210-6213

Absolute electrostatic force between two charged particles in a low dielectric solvent

A. J. Stace and E. Bichoutskaia, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 6210 DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25602A

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