Hierarchies of forces: The last 150 years

✍ Scribed by B.W. Ninham

• Book ID: 102980764
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 840 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-8686
• DOI: 10.1016/0001-8686(82)85002-1

✦ Synopsis

Recent experiments and theories have elucidated the region of applicability of continuum theories of particle interactions (van der Waals and double-layer forces).

For some systems these theories appear to describe interactions correctly down to contact_ For others of real application, continuum theories break down at small distances and are seen to represent the long-range tail of the actual forces which determine the stability of suspensions.

These "structural" or "hydration" forces which can be attractive or repulsive, oscillatory or monotonic, arise due to surface-induced solvent structure and liquid-induced surface structure