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@INPROCEEDINGS{Wiegand:204999,
author = {Wiegand, Simone and Afanasenkau, Dzmitry and Syshchyk, Olga
and Wang, Zilin and Buitenhuis, Johan and Dhont, Jan K.G.},
title = {{T}hermophoresis of charged colloidal spheres and rods},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-05504},
year = {2015},
abstract = {Thermophoresis or Thermal diffusion, which is also known as
the Ludwig–Soret effect, is the phenomenon where mass
transport is induced by a temperature gradient in a
multi-component system. So far there is no microscopic
understanding for fluids. In the recent years the « heat of
transfer » concept has been successfully applied to
non-polar systems, but in aqueous systems the situations is
complicated due to charge effects and strong specific cross
interactions so that this concept fails.Recently Dhont and
Briels [1] calculated the double-layer contribution to the
single-particle thermal diffusion coefficient of charged,
spherical colloids with arbitrary double-layer thickness. In
this approach three forces are taken into account, which
contribute to the total thermophoretic force on a charged
colloidal sphere due its double layer: i) the force FW that
results from the temperature dependence of the internal
electrostatic energy W of the double layer, ii) the electric
force Fel with which the temperature-induced non-spherically
symmetric double-layer potential acts on the surface charges
of the colloidal sphere and iii) the solvent-friction force
Fsol on the surface of the colloidal sphere due to the
solvent flow that is induced in the double layer because of
its asymmetry. This concept has successfully been used to
describe the Soret coefficient of Ludox particles as
function of the Debye length [2] (cf. Fig. 1). The surface
charge density of the Ludox particles is independently
obtained from electrophoresis measurements, the size of the
colloidal particles is obtained from electron microscopy,
and the Debye length is calculated from the ion
concentration. Therefore the only adjustable parameter in
the comparison with theory is the intercept at zero Debye
length, which measures the contribution to the Soret
coefficient of the solvation layer and possibly the colloid
core material.Later the concept was extended for charged
colloidal rods [3]. As model system we used the charged,
rod-like fd-virus. The wild type fd-virus has a contour
length L of 880 nm, a radius R of 3.4 nm, and a persistence
length LP of 2.2 µm. The Soret coefficient of the
fd-viruses increases monotonically with increasing Debye
length (cf. Fig. 1), while there is a relatively weak
dependence on the rod-concentration when the ionic strength
is kept constant. Additionally to the intercept at zero
Debye length we used the surface charge density as an
adjustable parameter. Experimentally we found a surface
charge density of 0.0500.003 e/nm2, which compares well
the surface charge density, of 0.0660.004 e/nm2, which
has been determined by electrophoresis measurements taking
into account the ion condensation.All experiments so far
have been performed with the so-called infrared thermal
diffusion forced Rayleigh scattering technique [4], with a
writing wavelength of 980 nm, which corresponds to an
absorption band of water with an approximate optical density
equal to OD=0.5 cm-1. This method uses the refractive index
contrast between the different components and is therefore
typically limited to binary mixtures. In order to study also
biological colloids in buffer solutions we are presently
developing a microscopic cell with heated wires. First
results for some fluorescently labelled polystyrene lattices
in the microwire cell are presented in comparison with
thermal diffusion forced Rayleigh scattering measurements.
Figure 1: (A) Soret coefficient, ST, as function of the
Debye length for Ludox particles and the wild type fd-virus.
(B) TEM image of the Ludox particle and (C) the
corresponding size distribution. (D) TEM image of the
fd-virus.REFERENCES[1] J.K.G. Dhont and W.J. Briels, Eur.
Phys. J. E 25, 61(2008).[2] H. Ning, J.K.G. Dhont, and S.
Wiegand, Langmuir, 24, 2426(2008).[3] Z. Wang, H. Kriegs, J.
Buitenhuis, J.K.G. Dhont, and S. Wiegand, Soft Matter, 9,
8697(2013).[4] S. Wiegand, H. Ning, and H. Kriegs, J. Phys.
Chem. B, 111, 14169(2007).},
month = {May},
date = {2015-05-20},
organization = {Joint European Thermodynamics
Conference 2015, Nancy (France), 20 May
2015 - 22 May 2015},
subtyp = {After Call},
cin = {ICS-3},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-3-20110106},
pnm = {551 - Functional Macromolecules and Complexes (POF3-551)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-551},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/204999},
}