Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 15, Issue 9, Pages 2020-2031Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8sm02292e
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- MOST [2016YFA0400904, 2018YFA0208702]
- NSFC [21833007, 21790350, 21673212, 21521001, 21473165]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2340000074]
- Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies [AHY090200]
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The diffusion behavior of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in polymer solutions is studied using Langevin dynamics simulations. We find that the long time diffusion coefficient D can show a non-monotonic dependence on the particle size R if the active force F-a is large enough, wherein a bigger particle would diffuse faster than a smaller one which is quite counterintuitive. By analyzing the short time dynamics in comparison to the passive one, we find that such non-trivial dependence results from the competition between persistent motion of the ABP and the length-scale dependent effective viscosity that the particle experiences in the polymer solution. We have also introduced an effective viscosity eta(eff) experienced by the ABP phenomenologically. Such an active eta(eff) is found to be larger than a passive one and strongly depends on R and F-a. In addition, we find that the dependence of D on propelling force Fa presents a good power-law scaling at a fixed R and the scaling factor changes non-monotonically with R. Such results demonstrate that the active process plays rather subtle roles in the diffusion of nano-particles in complex solutions.
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