Abstract
Colloidal dispersions are made of “large” particles suspended in a solvent of “small” molecules (usually water). A particle can be considered as a colloid if its individual dynamics is essentially Brownian. Therefore, a colloidal particle must be large compared to the size of a solvent molecule, but not too massive in order to prevent fast sedimentation. Experimentally the size of these particles can range from 2nm to 1μm [1]. Although these boundaries are only indicative, as consequence it is possible to prepare mixtures of large and small colloidal particles with a diameter ratio of some few hundred, which is significantly different from usual atomic fluids. Another important, and more fundamental difference, is polydispersity in size and shape: in a colloidal suspension particles are not identical, and the width of the size distribution depends on the preparation process (some few percent in model systems).
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Biben, T. (1999). On Effective Interactions in Colloidal Physics. In: Caccamo, C., Hansen, JP., Stell, G. (eds) New Approaches to Problems in Liquid State Theory. NATO Science Series, vol 529. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4564-0_20
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