期刊
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 32, 期 32, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab8552
关键词
thermophoresis; optothermal; colloidal assembly; Voronoi decomposition; gold microplate
资金
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- DST Energy Science [SR/NM/TP-13/2016]
- DST [DST/SJF/PSA-02/2017-18]
Light-activated colloidal assembly and swarming can act as model systems to explore non-equilibrium state of matter. In this context, creating new experimental platforms to facilitate and control two-dimensional assembly of colloidal crystals are of contemporary interest. In this paper, we present an experimental study of assembly of colloidal silica microparticles in the vicinity of a single-crystalline gold microplate evanescently excited by a 532 nm laser beam. The gold microplate acts as a source of heat and establishes a thermal gradient in the system. The created optothermal potential assembles colloids to form a two-dimensional poly-crystal, and we quantify the coordination number and hexagonal packing order of the assembly in such a driven system. Our experimental investigation shows that for a given particle size, the variation in assembly can be tuned as a function of excitation-polarization and surface to volume ratio of the gold microplates. Furthermore, we observe that the assembly is dependent on size of the particle and its material composition. Specifically, silica colloids assemble but polystyrene colloids do not, indicating an intricate behaviour of the forces under play. Our work highlights a promising direction in utilizing metallic microstructures that can be harnessed for optothermal colloidal crystal assembly and swarming studies. Our experimental system can be utilized to explore optically driven matter and photophoretic interactions in soft-matter including biological systems such as cells and micro organisms.
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