Surprisingly short-ranged interactions in highly charged colloidal suspensions

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 61, Issue 6 B, 2000, Pages 6922-6933

  Durand, Richard V ^a   Franck, Carl ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COLLOIDS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MIXTURES; POLYSTYRENES; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ION EXCHANGE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

CHARGED COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; COLLOIDAL INTERACTIONS; DIGITAL VIDEO MICROSCOPY; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CHARGED COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; DERJAGUIN-LANDAU-VERWEY-OVERBEEK THEORIES; DIGITAL VIDEO MICROSCOPY; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SHORT-RANGED INTERACTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

EID: 0034205519     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.6922     Document Type: Article

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