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Kinetic arrest in polyion-induced inhomogeneously charged colloidal particle aggregation

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Polymer chains adsorbed onto oppositely charged colloidal particles can significantly modify the particle-particle interactions. For sufficient amounts of added polymers, the original electrostatic repulsion can even turn into an effective attraction and relatively large aggregates can form. The attractive interaction contribution between two particles arises from the correlated adsorption of polyions at the oppositely charged particle surfaces, resulting in a non-homogeneous surface charge distribution. Here, we investigate the aggregation kinetics of polyion-induced colloidal complexes through Monte Carlo simulation, in which the effect of charge anisotropy is taken into account by a DLVO-like inter-particle potential, as recentely proposed by Velegol and Thwar (Langmuir 17, 7687 (2001)). The results reveal that the aggregation process slows down due to the progressive increase of the potential barrier height upon clustering. Within this framework, the experimentally observed cluster phases in polyelectrolyte-liposome solutions can be interpreted as a kinetic arrested state.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale A. Moro 5, I-00185, Roma, Italy

    D. Truzzolillo, F. Bordi, F. Sciortino & C. Cametti

  2. INFM CRS-SOFT, Unità di Roma 1, Roma, Italy

    D. Truzzolillo, F. Bordi, F. Sciortino & C. Cametti

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Truzzolillo, D., Bordi, F., Sciortino, F. et al. Kinetic arrest in polyion-induced inhomogeneously charged colloidal particle aggregation. Eur. Phys. J. E 29, 229–237 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2009-10471-1

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