Dynamics and sedimentation velocity in charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions |
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Authors: | R Klein G Nägele |
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Institution: | 1. Fakult?t für Physik, Universit?t Konstanz, Postfach 5560, D-78464, Konstanz, Germany
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Abstract: | Summary Charge-stabilized suspensions are characterized by the strong electrostatic interactions between the particles so that rather
dilute systems may exhibit strong correlation resulting in a well-developed short-range order. This microstructure, quantitatively
described by the pair distribution functiong(r), is rather different from that of (uncharged) hard spheres. It is shown how this difference affects the ?hydrodynamic function?H(k), which appears in the expression for the first cumulant Γ(k)=k
2
D
eff(k)=k
2
H(k)/S(k) of the dynamic autocorrelation function. Without hydrodynamic interaction,H(k)=D
0, which is the free-diffusion coefficient. Using pairwise additive hydrodynamic interaction and the lowest-order many-body
theory of hydrodynamic interaction, it is found thatH(k) can deviate considerably fromD
0 even for systems of volume fractions ϕ as low as 10−3. These effects are more pronounced for collective diffusion than for self-diffusion. SinceH(k=0) is closely related to the sedimentation velocity, we have studied this quantity as a function of volume fraction. It is
found that (H(0)/D
0) −1 scales asφ
1/3 at low ϕ in salt-free suspensions.
Paper presented at the I International Conference on Scaling Concepts and Complex Fluids, Copanello, Italy, July 4–8, 1994. |
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Keywords: | Colloids |
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