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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 577, Issue -, Pages 532-540Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2019.06.021
Keywords
AFM; Colloidal suspension; Stabilization; Nanoparticle halo; Adsorption
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- NASA EPSCoR [NNX14AN28A]
- NASA [NNX14AN28A, 678859] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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In nanoparticle haloing, charged nanoparticles have been found to enhance the stability of colloidal suspensions by forming a non-adsorbing layer surrounding neutral colloids which induces an electrostatic repulsion between them. However, there has been some debate that nanoparticles may directly deposit onto the colloidal surfaces and that the stabilization mechanism relies on nanoparticle adsorption. In this study, we have found that these two mechanisms control the stability of colloidal suspensions across a continuum over increasing nanoparticle concentrations. AFM force measurements showed that highly charged zirconia nanoparticles built up an electrostatic repulsion between negligibly charged silica surfaces, preventing them from aggregating. The follow-up adsorption measurements and force modeling indicated that minor adsorption of nanoparticles is expected at volume fractions of 10(-5) to 10(-3), but the amount of nanoparticle adsorption dramatically increases with increasing the nanoparticle volume fraction beyond 10(-3). Based on these results, we propose that the fundamental mechanism of nanoparticle-regulated stabilization is nanoparticle haloing at low nanoparticle concentrations which transitions to adsorption at higher concentrations. Accordingly, at a nanoparticle volume fraction of around 10(-3) where the transition happens, the stabilization can be influenced by both nanoparticle haloing and adsorption.
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