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Published on: May 20, 2014
Colloid interaction and pair correlation function of one-dimensional colloid-polymer systems
C-Y Chou1, B Payandeh, M Robert
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Abstract:
The interaction and pair correlation function of weakly charged colloidal particles in quasi-one-dimensional colloid-polymer systems are determined by enhanced video microscopy and digital image analysis. The pair correlation function is found to depend not only on the polymer concentration, but also on the degree of confinement; in particular, it depends on whether the channel width is such that mutual passage of the colloid particles is possible or not. These findings are compared with exact results on short-range order in linear continuous systems.
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