Electrostatic interaction between soft particles
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1Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Institute of Colloid and Interface Science, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan. ohshima@rs.noda.tus.ac.jp
Abstract:
Electrostatic interaction between two soft particles (i.e., polyelectrolyte-coated particles) in an electrolyte solution is discussed. An approximate analytic expression for the interaction energy between two dissimilar soft spheres is derived by applying Derjaguin's approximation to the corresponding interaction energy between two parallel dissimilar soft plates for the case where the density of fixed charges within the polyelectrolyte layer is low. The obtained expression covers various limiting cases that include hard sphere/hard sphere interaction, spherical polyelectrolyte/spherical polyelectrolyte interaction, soft sphere/spherical polyelectrolyte interaction, soft sphere/hard sphere interaction, and spherical polyelectrolyte/hard sphere interaction.
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