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Pair interparticle potential (black curves), van der Waals attraction (red curves) and electrostatic double-layer repulsion (green) calculated using Eqns 1–8 for nanoshells with silica core diameters noted in the legend. Calculations were performed for silica spheres coated with APTMS at pH of 3: ζ=42 mV.62,63
