Colloids
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A colloid consists of small particles of one substance suspended in another, first described by Thomas Graham in the late nineteenth century [1].
Models
References
Related reading
- H.C. Hamaker "The London-van der Waals attraction between spherical particles", Physica 4 pp. 1058-1072 (1937)
- Wilson Poon, Peter Pusey and Henk Lekkerkerker "Colloids in suspense", Physics World April pp. 27-34 (1996)
- Alfons van Blaaderen "Colloids get complex", Nature 439 pp. 545-546 (2006)
Books
- W. B. Russel, D. A. Saville and W. R. Schowalter "Colloidal Dispersions", Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics (1989) ISBN 9780521426008