Direct measurement of salt-mineral repulsion using atomic force microscopy.
The disjoining pressure between a mineral and soluble salt crystal in concentrated aqueous solution has been successfully measured with atomic force microscopy.
Hamilton
Andrea
A
School of Engineering and Centre for Materials Science & Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh, UK. andrea.hamilton@ed.ac.uk
Koutsos
Vasileios
V
Hall
Christopher
C