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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 95, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.208301
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We study diffusion of charged nanoparticles in a temperature gradient and derive the corresponding Ludwig-Soret transport coefficient. Charge effects are found to enhance thermodiffusion by up to 2 orders of magnitude. We show that the inverse Soret coefficient 1/S-T is a linear function of the colloid density n; the proportionality factor, or second virial coefficient, varies algebraically with inverse salinity, n(0)(-alpha); the precise value of the exponent alpha depends on the ratio of particle size and Debye length. Our findings compare favorably with experimental observations and provide, without adjustable parameters, a good fit to the data on 3-nm sodium dodecylsulfate micelles.
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