Structure and Short-time Dynamics in Suspensions of Charged Silica Spheres in the entire Fluid Regime

Abstract

We present an experimental study of short-time diffusion properties in fluid-like suspensions of monodisperse charge-stabilized silica spheres suspended in DMF. The static structure factor S(q), the short-time diffusion function, D(q), and the hydrodynamic function, H(q), in these systems have been probed by combining X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy experiments with static small-angle X-ray scattering. Our experiments cover the full liquid-state part of the phase diagram, including deionized systems right at the liquid-solid phase boundary. We show that the dynamic data can be consistently described by the renormalized density fluctuation expansion theory of Beenakker and Mazur over a wide range of concentrations and ionic strengths. In accord with this theory and Stokesian dynamics computer simulations, the measured short-time properties cross over monotonically, with increasing salt content, from the bounding values of salt-free suspensions to those of neutral hard spheres. Moreover, we discuss an upper bound for the hydrodynamic function peak height of fluid systems based on the Hansen-Verlet freezing criterion.

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