Asakura-Oosawa mixture
The Asakura-Oosawa mixture [1] [2] [3] is used to study polymer-colloid mixtures. The mixture is composed of a binary mixture of hard spheres, which represent the colloids, and penetrable spheres, which represent the polymers.
References
- ↑ Sho Asakura and Fumio Oosawa "On Interaction between Two Bodies Immersed in a Solution of Macromolecules", Journal of Chemical Physics 22 1255 (1954)
- ↑ Sho Asakura and Fumio Oosawa "Interaction between particles suspended in solutions of macromolecules", Journal of Polymer Science 33 pp. 183-192 (1958)
- ↑ A. Vrij "Polymers at Interfaces and the Interactions in Colloidal Dispersions", Pure and Applied Chemistry 48 pp. 471-483 (1976)
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