Sedimentation Equilibrium of Mixtures of Charged Colloids

AcknowledgementsI am very grateful to a lot of people for many reasons. For strategic reasons Ishall not mention all, and not all reasons. Among many important teacherswere:My supervisor, René, for introducing me to what I found to be a very excitingtopic in physics, for introducing me to many interesting conferences,talks, articles, and for all the support.Josefien and Stoppelenburg family. For the sheep. And for mind stirring concertsand communication. Thanks to my brother Olaf for the questions:”Watheb je eraan?” and:”Wat word je ermee?”. They proved to be two of the mostchallenging questions during my study. Thanks to Elli Zwart, for helping mewith the understanding of equilibrium, (force) balance, consciousness of systems,and the (un)covering of phenomena. Jan Roest, for all (colloidal)discussions. Wim and Marga Hilhorst, for all the puzzles and meatballs.My parents who did great efforts to make this possible. My father Felixwho was incredible, as my brave mother Nel, always being supportive andshowing an unbounded trust.73