Electrostatic Interaction between Two Ion-Penetrable Charged Spheroids |
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Authors: | Jyh-Ping Hsu Bo-Tau Liu |
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Institution: | Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 10617, Republic of China |
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Abstract: | The electrostatic interaction between two ion-penetrable, charged spheroidal particles is examined theoretically. These particles can assume different sizes and an arbitrary spatial orientation. The electrical potential distribution is derived analytically under the Debye–Huckle condition. The results for two interaction spheres, one spheroidal particle and a planar surface, and rigid particles covered by an ion-penetrable membrane can be recovered as the special cases of the present general problem. We show that, for a fixed center-to-center distance between two particles, regardless of their relative sizes, the interaction free energy is the greatest if their major axes lie on the same line (head-to-head), and the smallest if their major axes are perpendicular to each other but not on the same plane (perpendicular). |
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Keywords: | electrostatic interaction free energy particles spheroidal ion-penetrable electrical potential distribution analytical expression |
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