Colloids

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A colloid consists of small particles of one substance suspended in another, first described by Thomas Graham in the late nineteenth century, for example see Ref. 1.

[edit] Models

• Repulsive hard core Yukawa potential
• Girifalco potential

[edit] Interesting reading

• Wilson Poon, Peter Pusey and Henk Lekkerkerker "Colloids in suspense", Physics World April pp. 27-34 (1996)
• Alfons van Blaaderen "Colloids get complex", Nature 439 pp. 545-546 (2006)

[edit] References

1. Thomas Graham F.R.S. "On the properties of silicic acid and other analogous colloidal substances", Journal of the Chemical Society 17 pp. 318 - 327 (1864)