Download or read book Structure and Diffusion in Dense Confined Colloidal Suspensions written by Bianxiao Cui and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charged Colloids and Proteins written by Marco Heinen and published by Forschungszentrum Jülich. This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Structure Dynamics and Photon Diffusion in Charge stabilized Colloidal Suspensions written by Luis Fernando Rojas Ochoa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confined Flow of Attractive Colloidal Suspensions written by Rahul Pandey and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attractive particulate fluids flowing through complex confined geometries are frequently used in technological applications. While the flow properties of hard-sphere suspensions in micro-scale geometries have been studied extensively, the effects of interparticle attractions and particle size dispersity on the confined flow properties of particulate suspensions are not well understood. We used confocal microscopy, particle tracking, and bulk rheology to study the confined structure, dynamics, and flow properties of colloid-polymer mixtures, which serve as simple models of attractive particulate suspensions. We employed poly(methyl-methacrylate) spheres that were suspended in a refractive-index and density- matched solvent, and induced a controlled short-range depletion attraction between particles by adding non-absorbing linear polystyrene. First, we investigated the effects of particle size dispersity on confinement-induced solidification of colloid-polymer mixtures. We formulated mixtures of polymer and bidispersed colloids with particle size ratio aS/aL ≈ 0.49 at a constant total volume fraction fT and measured the dynamics of the large particles as a function of the volume fraction of large particles. The dynamics of large particles became slower as the volume fraction of large particles r=fL/fT was decreased or the confinement thickness was decreased, indicating increasingly solid-like behavior. Second, we investigated the effects of variation in particle size dispersity r on the rheology and microstructure of mixtures of polymer and bidispersed colloids. Significant changes in rheology and microstructure were observed only at high volume fractions of large particles. By contrast, dense suspensions fT = 0.40 were strong gels at all concentration of large particles and exhibited only modest rheological and microstructural changes. Finally, we investigated the effects of variation in interparticle attractions on the microchannel flow of colloid-polymer mixtures. In suspensions with weak interparticle attractions, the number density of particles increased downstream in the channel due to shear-induced migration and consolidation by compression. In suspensions with stronger interparticle attractions, an interconnected network of particles suppressed these mechanisms and prevented the increase in density downstream. Together, our results indicate that the confined structure, dynamics, and flow properties of attractive colloidal suspensions can be controllably tuned from fluid-like to solid-like by varying the interparticle attractions and the particle size dispersity.
Download or read book Brownian Dynamics of Colloidal Suspensions written by Ward Evan TeGrotenhuis and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Suspensions of Colloidal Particles and Aggregates written by Frank Babick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the properties of particles in colloidal suspensions. It has a focus on particle aggregates and the dependency of their physical behaviour on morphological parameters. For this purpose, relevant theories and methodological tools are reviewed and applied to selected examples. The book is divided into four main chapters. The first of them introduces important measurement techniques for the determination of particle size and interfacial properties in colloidal suspensions. A further chapter is devoted to the physico-chemical properties of colloidal particles—highlighting the interfacial phenomena and the corresponding interactions between particles. The book’s central chapter examines the structure-property relations of colloidal aggregates. This comprises concepts to quantify size and structure of aggregates, models and numerical tools for calculating the (light) scattering and hydrodynamic properties of aggregates, and a discussion on van-der-Waals and double layer interactions between aggregates. It is illustrated how such knowledge may significantly enhance the characterisation of colloidal suspensions. The final part of the book refers to the information, ideas and concepts already presented in order to address technical aspects of the preparation of colloidal suspensions—in particular the performance of relevant dispersion techniques and the stability of colloidal suspensions.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complex Plasmas And Colloidal Dispersions Particle resolved Studies Of Classical Liquids And Solids written by Alexei Ivlev and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many fundamental issues in classical condensed matter physics can be addressed experimentally using systems of individually visible mesoscopic particles playing the role of “proxy atoms”. The interaction between such “atoms” is determined by the properties of the surrounding medium and/or by external tuning. The best-known examples of such experimental model systems are two different domains of soft matter — complex plasmas and colloidal dispersions.The major goal of this book — written by scientists representing both complex plasmas and colloidal dispersions — is to bring the two fields together. In the first part of the book the basic properties of the two systems are summarized, demonstrating huge conceptual and methodological overlap of the fields and emphasizing numerous cross-connections between them and their essential complementarity. This “introductory part” should serve to help each community in understanding the other field better. Simultaneously, this provides the necessary basis for the second part focused on particle-resolved studies of diverse generic phenomena in liquids and solids — all performed with complex plasmas and/or colloidal dispersions. The book is concluded with the discussion of critical open issues and fascinating perspectives of such interdisciplinary research.
Download or read book Structure and Dynamics of Confined Polymers written by John J. Kasianowicz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polymers are essential to biology because they can have enough stable degrees of freedom to store the molecular code of heredity and to express the sequences needed to manufacture new molecules. Through these they perform or control virtually every function in life. Although some biopolymers are created and spend their entire career in the relatively large free space inside cells or organelles, many biopolymers must migrate through a narrow passageway to get to their targeted destination. This suggests the questions: How does confining a polymer affect its behavior and function? What does that tell us about the interactions between the monomers that comprise the polymer and the molecules that confine it? Can we design and build devices that mimic the functions of these nanoscale systems? The NATO Advanced Research Workshop brought together for four days in Bikal, Hungary over forty experts in experimental and theoretical biophysics, molecular biology, biophysical chemistry, and biochemistry interested in these questions. Their papers collected in this book provide insight on biological processes involving confinement and form a basis for new biotechnological applications using polymers. In his paper Edmund DiMarzio asks: What is so special about polymers? Why are polymers so prevalent in living things? The chemist says the reason is that a protein made of N amino acids can have any of 20 different kinds at each position along the chain, resulting in 20 N different polymers, and that the complexity of life lies in this variety.
Download or read book Theory and Applications of Colloidal Suspension Rheology written by Norman J. Wagner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential text on the practical application and theory of colloidal suspension rheology, written by an international coalition of experts.
Download or read book Colloidal Suspension Rheology written by Jan Mewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in an accessible and introductory manner, this is the first book devoted to the comprehensive study of colloidal suspensions.
Download or read book Structure and Dynamics in Ordered and Disordered Colloidal Suspensions written by Stephen James Nilsen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aggregation and Gelation of Concentrated Colloidal Suspensions written by Sara Romer and published by Herbert Utz Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Density Dependent Interactions and Structure of Charged Colloidal Dispersions in the Weak Screening Regime written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We determine the structure of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions at low ionic strength over an extended range of particle volume fractions using a combination of light and small angle neutron scattering experiments. The variation of the structure factor with concentration is analyzed within a one-component model of a colloidal suspension. We show that the observed structural behavior corresponds to a nonmonotonic density dependence of the colloid effective charge and the mean interparticle interaction energy. Our findings are corroborated by similar observations from primitive model computer simulations of salt-free colloidal suspensions.
Download or read book Dynamics and Non equilibrium Structure of Colloidal Dumbbell shaped Particles in Dense Suspensions written by Nils Heptner and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase Behavior and Effective Interactions in Colloidal Suspensions written by and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2007-04-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colloidal suspensions describe particles with size from typically a few nanometers to a few microns which are dispersed in a medium. In physics, in chemistry, and in biology colloids play an important role and the study of colloidal systems underwent a recent renaissance. This is based on the development of experimental techniques, the availability of extensive computer simulations and well-developed theoretical approaches. From a technological point of view, the relevance of micro- and nanostructured materials and the presence of colloids in nature and everyday life motivates study of this rich field. In this thesis the phase behavior and the effective interactions of colloidal suspensions in bulk, in contact with surfaces, and in confined geometry are studied. For mixtures of particles with hard-core interactions the model introduced by Asakura, Oosawa and Vrij provides an appropriate starting-point. Based on that model the free-volume theory and the density functional theory are employed. In experimental systems one faces particles with properties such as the size or the shape which are described by a distribution. To capture that issue a generalized approach based on free-volume theory for treating mixtures of colloids and a polydisperse depletion agent is presented. Within that approach it is possible to treat size and morphology polydispersity. A depletion agent with a bimodal distribution possessing two length scales can be studied. Though the Asakura-Oosawa-Vrij model describes a simple fluid - a mixture of hard spheres and ideal polymer - the phenomenology is rather rich: in contact with a wall one finds layering and wetting effects and in confined geometry of a narrow pore one finds capillary condensation. The competition between both effects manifests itself in thermodynamic properties like the excess colloid adsorption and the solvation force between the two confining walls. Solvent phase separation complicates the evaluation of interparticle interactions between the solute particles. We address this question for the wall-colloid and the colloid-colloid geometry. For a non-spherical particle the effect of curvature on thermodynamic quantities is studied.
