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Short-time self-diffusion in binary colloidal suspensions
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The Brownian dynamics of a colloidal particle is consistently modified by the presence in the solvent of other particles of comparable size, whose effects on the particle diffusion coefficient cannot be attributed to a change of the effective solvent viscosity. So far, despite their impact on subjects ranging from microrheology to phoretic transport in crowded environments, a detailed experimental survey of these effects is still lacking. By exploiting the peculiar properties of fluorinated colloidal particle, we have performed an extensive dynamic light scattering (DLS) investigation of short-time self-diffusion in binary colloidal mixtures, focusing on systems where one of the two species (the tracer particles) is very diluted compared to the other one (the host particles). From the dependence on the host concentration of the DLS correlation function, we have obtained the first-order correction h(s1)(s) to the tracer single-particle diffusion coefficient, varying the tracer-to-host size ratio q in the range 0.2 <= q <= 2. Our results support the functional relation of h(s1)(s) on q proposed to account for the theoretical and numerical results for hard-sphere mixtures. However, h(s1)(s) seems to have a weaker dependence on the size ratio than theoretically predicted, possibly because of an imperfect matching of the suspensions we used for an ideal hard-sphere mixture. This may be due to the presence of a stabilizing surfactant layer on the particle surface that, although very thin, has significant effects on hydrodynamic lubrication forces.
Keywords:
DILUTE POLYDISPERSE SYSTEM
TRACER-DIFFUSION
ROTATIONAL DIFFUSION
PARTICLE DIFFUSION
LIGHT-SCATTERING
DISPERSIONS
DYNAMICS
SPHERES
MICRORHEOLOGY
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