Many-body force and mobility measurements in colloidal systems

作者:Merrill Jason W; Sainis Sunil K; Blawzdziewicz Jerzy; Dufresne Eric R*
来源:Soft Matter, 2010, 6(10): 2187-2192.
DOI:10.1039/b926845f

摘要

We demonstrate a technique for simultaneously measuring each component of the force vectors and mobility tensor of a small collection of colloidal particles based on observing a set of particle trajectories. For a few-body system of micron-sized polymer beads in oil separated by several particle radii, we find that the mobility tensor is well-described by a pairwise Stokeslet model. This stands in contrast to the electrostatic interactions, which were found to deviate significantly from a pairwise model. The measurement technique presented here should be simple to extend to systems of heterogeneous, non-spherical particles arranged in arbitrary three dimensional geometries.

  • 出版日期2010