Colloidal suspensions of C-particles: Entanglement, percolation and microrheology.

We explore structural and dynamical behavior of concentrated colloidal suspensions made up by C-shape particles using Brownian dynamics computer simulations and theory. In particular, we focus on the entanglement process between nearby particles for almost closed C-shapes with a small opening angle. Depending on the opening angle and the particle concentration, there is a percolation transition for the cluster of entangled particles which shows the classical scaling characteristics. In a broad density range below the percolation threshold, we find a stretched exponential function for the dynamical decorrelation of the entanglement process. Finally, we study a setup typical in microrheology by dragging a single tagged particle with constant speed through the suspension. We measure the cluster connected to and dragged with this tagged particle. In agreement with a phenomenological theory, the size of the dragged cluster depends on the dragging direction and increases markedly with the dragging speed.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Chemical Physics

• Publication date

  2016-02-17

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1063/1.4947237arXiv 1602.05380PMID 27155650
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