How Confinement-Induced Structures Alter the Contribution of Hydrodynamic and Short-Ranged Repulsion Forces to the Viscosity of Colloidal Suspensions
How Confinement-Induced Structures Alter the Contribution of Hydrodynamic and Short-Ranged Repulsion Forces to the Viscosity of Colloidal Suspensions
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约束诱导结构如何改变流体动力和短程排斥力对胶体悬浮液粘度的贡献
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10.1103/physrevx.7.041005
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2017
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I. Cohen
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Meera Ramaswamy;Neil Y.C.Lin;Brian D.Leahy;C. Ness;Andrew M. Fiore;J. Swan;I. Cohen
了解胶体悬浮液中结构和流变学之间的相关性非常重要，因为这些悬浮液在工业应用中至关重要。此外，胶体在限制下表现出广泛的结构，这可能会大大改变粘度。在这里，我们使用的实验和模拟相结合，以阐明如何限制诱导结构改变流体动力学和排斥力的相对贡献，产生高达十倍的粘度变化。我们使用定制的共聚焦流变仪来成像胶体悬浮液的颗粒配置，同时测量粘度。我们发现一个非单调的趋势下的粘度约束，是强烈相关的微观结构。当差距减小到低于15个颗粒直径时，粘度首先从其体积值减小，显示出随差距的波动，然后对于低于3个颗粒直径的间隙急剧增加。此外，我们比较我们的实验结果，两个模拟技术，使我们能够确定流体动力学和短程排斥应力的相对贡献。第一种方法使用润滑近似来找到流体动力学应力，并且包括颗粒之间的短程排斥力，第二种方法是计算悬浮液中的全部流体动力学应力的斯托克斯动力学模拟。我们发现，在适度的约束粘度的降低有显着的贡献，从流体动力学和排斥力，而在小于三个颗粒直径的间隙的粘度增加主要来自短程排斥力。这些结果提供了新的见解，独特的流变行为的限制悬浮液，并进一步使我们能够调整粘度通过改变性能，如差距，多分散性，和体积分数。
Understanding the correlation between structure and rheology in colloidal suspensions is important as these suspensions are crucial in industrial applications. Moreover, colloids exhibit a wide range of structures under confinement that could considerably alter the viscosity. Here, we use a combination of experiments and simulations to elucidate how confinement induced structures alter the relative contributions of hydrodynamic and repulsive forces to produce up to a ten fold change in the viscosity. We use a custom built confocal rheoscope to image the particle configurations of a colloidal suspension while simultaneously measuring the viscosity. We find a non-monotonic trend to the viscosity under confinement that is strongly correlated with the microstructure. As the gap decreases below 15 particle diameters, the viscosity first decreases from its bulk value, shows fluctuations with the gap, and then sharply increases for gaps below three particle diameters. Further, we compare our experimental results to two simulations techniques that enables us to determine the relative contributions of hydrodynamic and short range repulsive stresses. The first method uses the lubrication approximation to find the hydrodynamic stress and includes a short range repulsive force between the particles and the second is a Stokesian dynamics simulation that calculates the full hydrodynamic stress in the suspension. We find that the decrease in the viscosity at moderate confinements has a significant contribution from both the hydrodynamic and repulsive forces whereas the increase in viscosity at gaps less than three particle diameters arises primarily from short range repulsive forces. These results provide new insights to the unique rheological behavior of confined suspensions and further enable us to tune the viscosity by changing properties such as the gap, polydispersity, and the volume fraction.