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Rene Messina
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The adsorption of charged colloids (macroions) onto an oppositely charged planar substrate is investigated theoretically. Taking properly into account the finite size of the macroions, unusual behaviors are reported. It is found that the role of the coions (the little salt-ions carrying the same sign of charge as that of the substrate) is crucial to understand the mechanisms involved in the process of macroion adsorption. In particular, the coions can accumulate near the substrates surface and lead to a counter-intuitive {it surface charge amplification}.
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