The surface force balance: direct measurement of interactions in fluids and soft matter

HJ Hayler, TS Groves, A Guerrini… - Reports on Progress …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last half-century, direct measurements of surface forces have been instrumental in
the exploration of a multitude of phenomena in liquid, soft, and biological matter …

Role of molecular architecture in the modulation of hydrophobic interactions

L ** a general interaction potential for hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions
SH Donaldson Jr, A Røyne, K Kristiansen, MV Rapp… - Langmuir, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
We review direct force measurements on a broad class of hydrophobic and hydrophilic
surfaces. These measurements have enabled the development of a general interaction …

Measuring forces and spatiotemporal evolution of thin water films between an air bubble and solid surfaces of different hydrophobicity

C Shi, X Cui, L **e, Q Liu, DYC Chan, JN Israelachvili… - ACS …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
A combination of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and reflection interference contrast
microscopy (RICM) was used to measure simultaneously the interaction force and the …

Dipolar Poisson-Boltzmann equation: ions and dipoles close to charge interfaces

A Abrashkin, D Andelman, H Orland - Physical review letters, 2007‏ - APS
We present an extension to the Poisson-Boltzmann model where the dipolar features of
solvent molecules are taken explicitly into account. The formulation is derived at mean-field …

A nanoscale gas state

XH Zhang, A Khan, WA Ducker - Physical review letters, 2007‏ - APS
We show that a very thin (5–80 nm) gas phase can exist for a long time (<? format?>><?
format?> 1 h) at the interface between a hydrophobic solid and water. We create the gas …

Perspective: Coulomb fluids—weak coupling, strong coupling, in between and beyond

A Naji, M Kanduč, J Forsman… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013‏ - pubs.aip.org
We present a personal view on the current state of statistical mechanics of Coulomb fluids
with special emphasis on the interactions between macromolecular surfaces, concentrating …

The search for the hydrophobic force law

MU Hammer, TH Anderson, A Chaimovich… - Faraday …, 2010‏ - pubs.rsc.org
After nearly 30 years of research on the hydrophobic interaction, the search for the
hydrophobic force law is still continuing. Indeed, there are more questions than answers …

Contact time-and pH-dependent adhesion and cohesion of low molecular weight chitosan coated surfaces

C Lim, DW Lee, JN Israelachvili, YS Jho… - Carbohydrate …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Low molecular weight chitosan (LMW chitosan,∼ 5 kDa) potentially has many desirable
biomedical applications such as anti-microbial, anti-tumor, and anti-diabetes. Unlike high …