Kinetics of depletion interactions

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2002-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208322v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

7 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2003-00393-0

Depletion interactions between colloidal particles dispersed in a fluid medium are effective interactions induced by the presence of other types of colloid. They are not instantaneous but build up in time. We show by means Brownian dynamics simulations that the fluctuations in the depletion force between two guest particles in a host dispersion of differently sized colloids do not decay exponentially with time, but show a power-law dependence. A simple scaling theory accurately describes the dependence of the magnitude of these fluctuations on time, on the inter-particle distance and on the size ratio of guest and host particles. The consequences in particular for the dynamics of colloidal mixtures are discussed.

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