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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 103, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.156101
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We present a refractive-index-matched colloidal system that allows direct observation of critical Casimir induced aggregation with a confocal microscope. We show that in this system, in which van der Waals forces are negligible, a simple competition between repulsive screened Coulomb and attractive critical Casimir forces can account quantitatively for the reversible aggregation. Above the temperature T(a), the critical Casimir force drives aggregation of the particles into fractal clusters, while below T(a), the electrostatic repulsion between the particles breaks up the clusters, and the particles resuspend by thermal diffusion. The aggregation is observed in a remarkably wide temperature range of as much as 15 degrees. We derive a simple expression for the particle pair potential that accounts quantitatively for the temperature-dependent aggregation and aggregate breakup.
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