Tracer diffusion in colloidal gels

Details Tracer diffusion in colloidal gels Tracer diffusion in colloidal gels

2007-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/0705.1266v1

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2008, 112 (3), pp 743 - 748

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

Computer simulations were done of the mean square displacement (MSD) of tracer particles in colloidal gels formed by diffusion or reaction limited aggregation of hard spheres. The diffusion coefficient was found to be determined by the volume fraction accessible to the spherical tracers ($\phi_a$) independent of the gel structure or the tracer size. In all cases, critical slowing down was observed at $\phi_a\approx 0.03$ and was characterized by the same scaling laws reported earlier for tracer diffusion in a Lorentz gas. Strong heterogeneity of the MSD was observed at small $\phi_a$ and was related to the size distribution of pores.

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