Phase Separation and Long-Lived Metastable States in Colloid–Polymer Mixtures
摘要
When a dispersion containing spherical colloids is mixed with a polymer solution two kinds of instabilities can occur, as depicted in Fig. 4.1: (1) bridging flocculationBridging flocculationFlocculation caused by adsorbing polymer chains or (2) unmixing driven by the depletion force.