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Colloidal dispersions include many of our most commonplace, everyday materials; examples include tea, milk, cosmetics, detergents, inks, lubricants, and paints. The forces that ultimately determine the phase behaviour and mechanical properties of these systems are numerous. To try and make some headway in understanding the properties of these complex systems we must simplify. In this chapter we concentrate just on the role of the repulsive forces. In particular, we discuss how the structure and dynamics of simple colloidal systems may be understood in terms of the properties of an assembly of hard spheres, one of the simplest models for a classical liqud.
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Bartlett, P., van Megen, W. (1994). Physics of Hard-Sphere Colloidal Suspensions. In: Mehta, A. (eds) Granular Matter. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4290-1_7
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