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SOFT MATTER
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 2379-2386Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02833c
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- Swedish Science Council [621-2013-3956]
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We study the thermophoretic motion of a micron sized single colloidal particle in front of a flat wall by evanescent light scattering. To quantify thermophoretic effects we analyse the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) of the particle in a constant temperature gradient perpendicular to the confining walls. We propose to determine thermophoretic forces from a generalized potential associated with the probability distribution of the particle position in the NESS. Experimentally we demonstrate, how this spatial probability distribution is measured and how thermophoretic forces can be extracted with 10 fN resolution. By varying temperature gradient and ambient temperature, the temperature dependence of Soret coefficient ST(T) is determined for r = 2.5 mm polystyrene and r = 1.35 mm melamine particles. The functional form of ST(T) is in good agreement with findings for smaller colloids. In addition, we measure and discuss hydrodynamic effects in the confined geometry. The theoretical and experimental technique proposed here extends thermophoresis measurements to so far inaccessible particle sizes and particle solvent combinations.
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