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Structurally determined Brownian dynamics in ordered colloidal suspensions: Self‐diffusion in fluid, supercooled, and crystalline phases

Rolf Simon,T. Palberg,P. Leiderer

Published 1993 in Journal of Chemical Physics

ABSTRACT

Electrostatically interacting colloidal suspensions at medium to very low salt concentrations were prepared in differently ordered phases using the method of continuous deionization. Equilibrium phase states include fluid, mono‐ and polycrystalline material as well as coexistence between fluid and monocrystal. A nonequilibrium supercooled fluid state is reproducibly reached by shear melting. In these phases the long time self‐diffusion coefficient DL was measured by forced Rayleigh scattering, while the potential of interaction was systematically varied by changing salt concentration cs and volume fraction φ. In the equilibrium fluid DL decreases by roughly an order of magnitude as the interaction increases. This trend extends continuously into the supercooled state. In all cases crystallization is observed for DL/D0≤0.10(1). In the polycrystalline phases self‐diffusion coefficients are still 1 to 2 orders of magnitude lower than in the supercooled state. Here self‐diffusion increases with increasing inte...

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    1993

  • Venue

    Journal of Chemical Physics

  • Publication date

    1993-08-15

  • Fields of study

    Physics, Materials Science, Chemistry

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1063/1.465156
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    Open on Semantic Scholar

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    Semantic Scholar

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