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Deposition of sticky spheres in channel flow: Modeling of surface coverage evolution requires accurate sphere-sphere collision hydrodynamics

Journal

JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 530, Issue -, Pages 383-393

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.06.097

Keywords

Sticky particle flows; Colloidal hydrodynamic interactions; Colloidal deposition; Microfluidics

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation [CBET-1404826]

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We analyzed the role of hydrodynamic interactions in a microfluidic channel flow containing a dilute suspension of micron-scale colloidal spheres (0.03%, 0.1%, 0.3% volume fraction) engineered to adhere onto a collector patch on the channel wall at wall shear rates of 9.3-930 s(-1). Particle-wall adhesion was mediated by single-stranded DNA oligomers grafted onto the spheres and the glass channel wall, producing well-defined interactions via DNA strand base pairing. Particle positions in the flow were evolved using Brownian dynamics simulations in which hydrodynamic interactions between moving particles and the channel walls and/or adhered particles were computed off-line using a series of local simulations that explicitly resolve the fluid flow at the particle scale. By systematically varying the nature of hydrodynamic interactions captured in the Brownian dynamics simulations, we find that the interactions between moving and adhered particles represents the single most important physical element in such models. Once captured sufficiently accurately, the resulting models are able to predict coarse variables such as the overall particle coverage evolution, as well as more subtle characteristics, such as the microstructural distribution of the adhered particles. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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