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Some early work along these lines is, as I recall:

Parsegian, V.A. & G.H. Weiss (1972). On van der waals interactions 
between macroscopic bodies having inhomogeneous dielectric 
susceptibilities. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 40(1), 35-41.


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