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Colloid and interface science

a pairwise summation of London dispersion attractions between bodies, giving van der Waals forces between particles scaled by the Hamaker constant.

In colloid and interface science, Hamaker theory refers to a pairwise summation of London dispersion attractions between bodies, giving van der Waals forces between particles scaled by the Hamaker constant. This meaning comes from Hamaker (1937) in Physica.[1]

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References

Hamaker, H. C. (1937). The London: van der Waals attraction between spherical particles. Physica, 4(10), 1058-1072. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-8914(37)80203-7

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