論文

査読有り
2006年

Wetting-induced depletion interaction between particles in a phase-separating liquid mixture

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
  • Takeaki Araki
  • ,
  • Hajime Tanaka

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英語
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研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.73.061506

Inclusion of solid particles drastically affects the pattern evolution of phase separation of a binary fluid mixture, via preferential wetting of one of the phases to the particles. Here we study this problem by numerical simulation, which incorporates interparticle hydrodynamic interactions properly. When particles favor one of the components of a mixture, wetting layers are quickly formed on the particle surfaces and all particles are eventually included into the more wettable phase. For immobile particles, domains of the more wettable phase are pinned to the particles and the domain growth is thus suppressed. For this case, the domain size at a certain phase-separation time decreases monotonically with increasing the particle concentration. For mobile particles, on the other hand, the reentrant morphological transformation is observed as a function of the particle concentration: With an increase in the particle concentration, the domain morphology of the more wettable phase sequentially changes from network, droplet to network. We found that the final morphological transition is induced by wetting-induced depletion interaction: Strong attractive interactions act among particles when the total volume of the more wettable phase is not enough to cover all the particles by wetting layers. © 2006 The American Physical Society.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.73.061506
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.061506
  • ISSN : 1539-3755
  • ISSN : 1550-2376
  • SCOPUS ID : 33745321213

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