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Published on: May 20, 2014
Coupled dynamics in binary mixtures of model colloidal Yukawa systems
Daniel Weidig1, Joachim Wagner1
1Institut für Chemie, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany. joachim.wagner@uni-rostock.de.
Abstract:
The dynamical behavior of binary mixtures consisting of highly charged colloidal particles is studied by means of Brownian dynamics simulations. We investigate differently sized, but identically charged particles with nearly identical interactions between all species in highly dilute suspensions. Different short-time self-diffusion coefficients induce, mediated by electrostatic interactions, a coupling of both self and collective dynamics of differently sized particles: the long-time self-diffusion coefficients of a larger species are increased by the presence of a more mobile, smaller species and vice versa. Similar coupling effects are observed in collective dynamics where both time constant and functional form of intermediate scattering functions' initial decay are influenced by the presence of a differently sized species. We provide a systematic analysis of coupling effects in dependence on the ratio of sizes, number densities, and the strength of electrostatic interactions.
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