Sentence examples for depletion force from inspiring English sources
However, non-DLVO type interaction, steric, bridging, and depletion force, is generally important to control dispersion behavior of nanoparticles.
Representative force-distance curve of pristine MD membrane showed a strong attractive depletion force comparing with that of patterned one.
When the electric field is removed, the force balance between external hydraulic force/electric field and depletion force cannot be maintained.
In the present article the concept of depletion force from colloidal physics and theoretical techniques developed for polymer science have been applied to study the effects of macromolecular crowding on protein stability.
The kinetics of CNT flocculation was described and explained by taking into consideration the depletion force considered as driving force and the thickness of the bound rubber layer considered as hindering factor.
Understanding the depletion forces in monocomponent and multicomponent colloidal suspensions within confined conditions has become a topic of increasing interest over the last years in Soft Matter Physics since they are involved in many biological and technological applications.
Aiming for the simulation of colloidal droplets in microfluidic devices, we present here a numerical method for two-fluid systems subject to surface tension and depletion forces among the suspended droplets.
We find that adding the α-pyrene functionalized polymer to CNTs has two counter playing effects: on the one hand, increased surface coverage of the carbon nanotubes increases their solubility; on the other hand increased concentration of free polymer in the solution enhances the depletion forces between the nanotubes.
It is likely that the stress of nitrogen depletion forces the microalgae to transform protein or peptides to energy-rich compounds (such as lipids or carbohydrates) [ 2, 24].
Davis et al. noted that with whole blood in deterministic lateral displacement there is hydrodynamic coupling of the cells to each other, entrapping a small cell in a larger cell's flow field and preventing separation of the small one from the large one and entropic effects by which larger cells are moved by depletion forces to the outside of a channel.
