The Asakura-Oosawa theory: Entropic forces in physics, biology, and soft matter

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
• ² Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
• ³ Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
• ⁴ Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• ⁵ CNR-ISC (National Research Council-Institute for Complex Systems) and Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.