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Long-ranged attraction between disordered heterogeneous surfaces
Long-ranged attractions across water between two surfaces that are randomly
covered with (mobile) positive and negative charge domains have been attributed
to induced correlation of the charges (positive lining up with negative) as the
surfaces approach. Here we show, by directly measuring normal forces under a
rapid shear field, that these attractions may not in fact be due to such
correlations. It is rather the inherent interaction-asymmetry between equally-
and between oppositely-charged domains that results in the long-ranged
attraction even in the complete absence of any charge correlation