Long-Range Attractive Force Between Hydrophobic Surfaces Observed by Atomic Force Microscopy
- 22 October 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 262 (5133), 547-550
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.8211182
Abstract
There is evidence from atomic force microscopy for a long-range attractive force between hydrophobic surfaces that is virtually identical to that observed with the surface forces apparatus. This force is present in the nonaqueous solvent ethylene glycol. A possible molecular mechanism involves in-plane polarized domains of solid-like monolayers adsorbed on mica, and a theoretical model has been developed that accounts for many of the observations.Keywords
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