2002/10/11 by Yan Levin, Jeferson J. Arenzon
Chemistry · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions #Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods #Material Dynamics and Properties #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/36/22/305
published as 2003 J. Phys. A 36 5857-5863 · 8 pages, to be published in proceedings of "Strongly coupled Coulomb systems" (SCCS2002)
arxiv created 2002/10/11 · openalex publication_date 2003/05/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Colloidal suspensions and polyelectrolyte solutions containing multivalent counterions can exhibit some very counter-intuitive behaviour usually associated with low-temperature physics. There are two particularly striking phenomena resulting from strong electrostatic correlations. One is the like-charge attraction and the second is the polyion overcharging. In this contribution we will concentrate on the problem of overcharging. In particular, we will explore the kinetic limitation to colloidal charge inversion in suspensions containing multivalent counterions.