Adsorption Phenomena at the Surface of Silica Spheres in a Binary Liquid Mixture
- 13 May 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (19), 2123-2126
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.2123
Abstract
Silica spheres of 1600-Å diameter immersed in the binary fluid water+2-6-lutidine have been studied by light-scattering techniques. The scattered light was seen to be strongly dependent on temperature and concentration. This effect is due to the appearance of a lutidine layer on the spheres. The layer thickness dramatically increases near a transition line were the spheres aggregate as a result of attractive interactions. This transition exhibits all the features predicted for the prewetting transition between high and low adsorption of a fluid on a surface.Keywords
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