Emily Krucker-Velasquez, Martin Z. Bazant, Alfredo Alexander-Katz, James W. Swan
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Potential of Mean Force and Underscreening of Polarizable Colloids in Concentrated Electrolytes
This study uses advanced numerical methods to estimate the mean force potential (PMF) between charged, polarizable colloidal particles in dense electrolytes. We observe that when the Debye screening length, λD, is below the hydrated ion size, the PMF shows discernible oscillations of purely electrostatic origin as opposed to chemical affinity, in addition to the expected exponential decay prescribed by Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) theory. Moreover, our findings suggest concentrated electrolytes are significantly less efficient at muting electrostatic interactions in electrostatically stabilized colloidal suspensions, potentially having significant implications for our understanding of colloidal stability and the forces that govern the behavior of concentrated charged soft matter systems beyond DLVO theory.
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