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Depletion Attraction

Depletion Attraction is an entropic force arising between colloidal particles in a solution of non-adsorbing polymers, where the exclusion of polymer chains from the interparticle region creates an osmotic pressure imbalance that drives the particles together.

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Depletion force in colloidal systems

Yunwei Mao, Michael E. Cates, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications · 1995 · 393 citations · Full text

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Theory of Phase Separation in Polymer Nanocomposites

Justin B. Hooper, Kenneth S. Schweizer · Macromolecules · 2006 · 306 citations

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Assembly of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanorods in Solution by Depletion Attraction

Dmitry Baranov, Angela Fiore, Marijn A. van Huis et al. · Nano Letters · 2010 · 272 citations · Full text

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Experimental Evidence for Two-Step Nucleation in Colloidal Crystallization

John R. K. Savage, A. D. Dinsmore · Physical Review Letters · 2009 · 259 citations

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Depletion forces in fluids

B. Götzelmann, Robert Evans, S. Dietrich · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1998 · 255 citations

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Authors

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  1. KS
    Kenneth S. Schweizer

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    11 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. WC
    Wilson C. K. Poon

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 760 citations

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  3. MA
    Michael A. Bevan

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    8 publications · 289 citations

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  4. HN
    H. N. W. Lekkerkerker

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    8 publications · 690 citations

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  5. JY
    John Y. Walz

    Virginia Tech, United States

    7 publications · 554 citations

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Institutions

259

  1. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    15 h-index

    51 publications

    2.3K citations

  2. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    28 publications

    3.5K citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    12 h-index

    33 publications

    3.4K citations

  4. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

    Daejeon, South Korea

    11 h-index

    43 publications

    3.2K citations

  5. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    9 h-index

    29 publications

    1.1K citations

  6. University of Stuttgart

    Stuttgart, Germany

    9 h-index

    19 publications

    839 citations

  7. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    1.5K citations

  8. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    7 h-index

    19 publications

    604 citations

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  1. Langmuir

    35 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    35 publications · 1.6K citations

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  3. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 17 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. Soft Matter

    18 publications · 783 citations

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  5. Macromolecules

    17 publications · 1.2K citations

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