Journal
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 449, Issue -, Pages 522-529Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.02.019
Keywords
Nanoparticle suspension; Confinement; Oscillatory forces; Structural forces; Colloidal Probe AFM; SAXS
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- DFG [SPP 1273 (Kl1165/1-3), Sfb 448]
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The paper deals with the effect of geometrical confinement on the structuring of Silica nanoparticle suspensions in thin films. The confinement is produced by a Colloidal Probe AFM. Approaching of the two outer surface leads to oscillatory forces. The force profile reflects the pair correlation function and its period the average distance between the nanoparticles under confinement. The nanoparticle structuring is compared to the particle distribution in bulk by small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The SAXS structure factor which presents the Fourier transform of the pair correlation function gives the same interparticle distance for the bulk as the oscillation period of the AFM force curves. The distance scales with particle number density rho as rho(-1/3) and is very robust against different suspension parameters (nanoparticle size, ionic strength) and parameters of the outer surfaces (surface potential, roughness and elasticity). (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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