Depletion force

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The depletion force is an entropic force arising from the excluded volume (and hence net entropy gain) in a binary colloidal solution.

References

  1. Sho Asakura, Fumio Oosawa "Interaction between particles suspended in solutions of macromolecules", Journal of Polymer Science 33 pp. 183 - 192 (1958)