Abstract
The following is a brief Comment on a paper in this special issue, as suggested by the editor. In a recent review in this journal [1] Kekicheff suggested an explanation (of electrostatic origin) for the long range attraction – of order tens of nm - across aqueous media between surfaces that had been rendered hydrophobic in different ways (mostly by surfactants). Several experimental studies, all dating to the period 1988–1996, were used to compare with and support this explanation [1] (see studies cited in figs. 3–12 of Ref. [1]). However, the review [1] may have missed the implication of more recent studies of the long-ranged attraction between surfaces that had been rendered hydrophobic by surfactants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 261-262 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Advances in Colloid and Interface Science |
| Volume | 270 |
| Early online date | 4 Jul 2019 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2019 |
Funding
I thank the European Research Council (ERC AdG CartiLube), the Israel Science Foundation−National Science Foundation China joint program (grant ISF-NSFC 2577/17) and the the Rothschild-Caesarea Foundation for their support of the work described in this paper.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Surfaces and Interfaces
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Colloid and Surface Chemistry