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Patrice Bacchin1, Kirill Glavatskiy, Vincent Gerbaud
1Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INP, UPS, Toulouse, France. patrice.bacchin@univ-tlse3.fr vincent.gerbaud@ensiacet.fr.
Abstract:
We show that the solvent behaviour in both diffusio-osmosis and Marangoni flow can be derived from a simple model of colloid-interface interactions. We demonstrate that the direction of the flow is regulated by a single value of the attractive parameter covering the purely repulsive and attractive-repulsive interaction cases. The proposed universality between diffusio-osmosis and Marangoni flow is extended further to include diffusio-phoresis. In particular, an object immersed to a colloidal solution moves towards the low concentration of the colloidal particles in the case of colloid-interface repulsion and towards the high concentration of the colloidal particles in the case of colloid-interface attraction. The approach combines the methods of fluid dynamics, molecular physics and transport phenomena and provides a tractable explanation of how the colloid-interface interactions affect the momentum balance and the transport phenomena (interfacially driven transport).
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