Colloids dragged through a polymer solution: experiment, theory and simulation

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2007-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/0709.4142v2

J. Chem. Phys. 129, 084902 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2965127

We present micro-rheological measurments of the drag force on colloids pulled through a solution of lambda-DNA (used here as a monodisperse model polymer) with an optical tweezer. The experiments show a violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation based on the independently measured viscosity of the DNA solution: the drag force is larger than expected. We attribute this to the accumulation of DNA infront of the colloid and the reduced DNA density behind the colloid. This hypothesis is corroborated by a simple drift-diffusion model for the DNA molecules, which reproduces the experimental data surprisingly well, as well as by corresponding Brownian dynamics simulations.

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