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Article Dans Une Revue EPL - Europhysics Letters Année : 2014

Probing nanoscale deformations of a fluctuating interface

Thomas Bickel

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We consider the contribution of thermal capillary waves to the interaction between a fluid-fluid interface and a nearby nanoparticle. Fluctuations are described thanks to an effective interaction potential which is derived using the renormalization group. The general theory is then applied to a spherical particle interacting with the interface through van der Waals forces. Surprisingly enough, we find that fluctuations contribute significantly to the deformation profile. Our study therefore reveals that thermal fluctuations cannot be ignored when probing nanoscale deformations of a soft interface.
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hal-00987463 , version 1 (23-02-2016)

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Thomas Bickel. Probing nanoscale deformations of a fluctuating interface. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2014, 106 (1), pp.160004. ⟨10.1209/0295-5075/106/16004⟩. ⟨hal-00987463⟩

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