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Capillary attraction (communication arising)

Like-charged particles at liquid interfaces

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Our experiment1 provides a clear measure of the interactions between charged particles at fluid–fluid interfaces and demonstrates that there can be a long-range attractive interaction between such particles.

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  1. Nikolaides, M. G. et al. Nature 420, 299–301 (2002).

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  2. Aveyard, R. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 246102-1-4 (2002).

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Nikolaides, M., Bausch, A., Hsu, M. et al. Like-charged particles at liquid interfaces. Nature 424, 1014 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/4241014b

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