UNIGE document Doctoral Thesis
previous document  unige:28989  next document
add to browser collection
Title

Interaction forces between colloidal latex particles and their modification by polyelectrolytes
Author
Finessi, Marco
Director
Borkovec, Michal
Defense Thèse de doctorat : Univ. Genève, 2013 - Sc. 4577 - 2013/06/28
Abstract This thesis focuses the attention on the interaction forces between negatively charged carboxyl and sulfate latex particles with adsorbed on them respectively different generations of cationic poly(amido amine) PAMAM dendrimers and Linear (Polyethylene imine) (LPEI) having two different molecular masses. Those systems were investigated through the colloidal probe technique based on atomic force microscopy (AFM). Tuning the dendrimers/polyelectrolytes dose adsorbed, the interaction forces are observed to switch from repulsive into attractive and back to repulsive again in the both cases. Close to the IEP, the surface of the whole particle is totally neutralized by the adsorbtion of the dendrimers/polyelectrolytes. In the case of dendrimers, this situation is described by the sum of two attractive forces: a long range van der Waals interaction and short range non-DLVO forces given by patch charge interactions. In the case of LPEI the attractive forces are described in term of the pure DLVO theory.
Keywords Colloidal probe — AFM — dendrimers — LPEI — patch charge interactions — van der Waals interactions — Poisson-Boltzmann — patch-charge interactions — DLVO
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:ch:unige-289891
Full text
Thesis (6.3 MB) - public document Free access
Structures
Faculté des sciences / Section de chimie et biochimie / Département de chimie minérale, analytique et appliquée
Citation
(ISO format) 		FINESSI, Marco. Interaction forces between colloidal latex particles and their modification by polyelectrolytes. Université de Genève. Thèse, 2013. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:28989

608 hits

378 downloads

Contact an author

Update request

Update

Deposited on : 2013-07-29

Export document
Format :
Citation style :