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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 147, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5001023
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- Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability, Unilever Case
- EPSRC [1353070]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1503622, 1353070] Funding Source: researchfish
We present thermophoretic measurements in aqueous suspensions of three different polystyrene (PS) particles of varying negative charge, size, and surface coating. Our measurement technique is based on the observation of the colloidal steady-state distribution using conventional bright-field microscopy, which avoids undesirable effects such as laser-induced convection or local heating. We find that the colloids with the weakest zeta potential exhibit the strongest thermophoretic effect, suggesting that the Soret coefficient has a more intricate dependence on surface functionality than predicted by existing theoretical approaches. We also study the relaxation of the colloids to steady-state and propose a model to quantify the relaxation speed, based on the time evolution of the colloidal center of mass. Our observations are well described by this model and show that the relaxation speed tends to increase with the magnitude of the thermophoretic force.
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