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Colloidal Particles and Their Counterions

Caption: Princeton chemical engineers accurately represented colloidal systems using a maximum of four colloidal particles, shown here in blue, and their oppositely charged counterparts, called counterions, shown here in red.

Credit: Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

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