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Dynamics of concentrated hard-sphere colloids near a wall
V N Michailidou1, G Petekidis, J W Swan
1FORTH/IESL and Department of Material Science & Technology, University of Crete, 71110, Heraklion, Greece.
Abstract:
We investigate the Brownian motion of hard-sphere colloids near a solid wall by Evanescent Wave Dynamic Light Scattering (EWDLS). We carried out measurements for various volume fractions of sterically stabilized poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) particles over a range of scattering wave vectors, q. While in the dilute regime, the near wall short-time diffusion is significantly slowed down due to particle-wall hydrodynamic interactions (HI); as volume fraction increases, the wall effect is progressively diminished at all q's. We present a new analysis for the EWDLS short-time self- and collective diffusivities applicable to all volume fractions and a simple model for the self-diffusion describing the interplay between particle-wall and particle-particle HI. Moreover, a weaker decay of the near-wall self-diffusion coefficient with volume fraction is predicted by Stokesian dynamics simulations.
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