Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 130, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3078408
Keywords
diffusion; freezing; hydrodynamics; liquid structure; phase diagrams; photon correlation spectroscopy; silicon compounds; suspensions; X-ray scattering
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB-TR6]
- FONCYT [S080118]
- SeCyT-UNC [OICT 2005-33691]
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We present an experimental study of short-time diffusion properties in fluidlike suspensions of monodisperse charge-stabilized silica spheres suspended in dimethylformamide. The static structure factor S(q), the short-time diffusion function D(q), and the hydrodynamic function H(q) have been probed by combining x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy experiments with static small-angle x-ray scattering. Our experiments cover the full liquid-state part of the phase diagram, including de-ionized systems right at the liquid-solid phase boundary. We show that the dynamic data can be consistently described by the renormalized density fluctuation expansion theory of Beenakker and Mazur over a wide range of concentrations and ionic strengths. In accordance with this theory and Stokesian dynamics computer simulations, the measured short-time properties cross over monotonically, with increasing salt content, from the bounding values of salt-free suspensions to those of neutral hard spheres. Moreover, we discuss an upper bound for the hydrodynamic function peak height of fluid systems based on the Hansen-Verlet freezing criterion.
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