Wetting phenomena and colloidal aggregation in binary mixtures
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 41 (2), 960-964
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.41.960
Abstract
Recent experiments on colloidal suspensions of silica spheres in a water-lutidine mixture close to the consolute point have revealed interesting sphere-aggregation behavior that has been linked to wetting phenomena. We carry out a theoretical analysis of the phase behavior in such mixtures and suggest that the observed behavior is consistent with general expectations in three-component fluids.Keywords
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