Liquid bridging of cylindrical colloids in near-critical solvents
arXiv:1706.00644 · doi:10.1063/1.4986149
Abstract
Within mean field theory, we investigate the bridging transition between a pair of parallel cylindrical colloids immersed in a binary liquid mixture as a solvent which is close to its critical consolute point . We determine the universal scaling functions of the effective potential and of the force between the colloids. For a solvent which is at the critical concentration and close to , we find that the critical Casimir force is the dominant interaction at close separations. This agrees very well with the corresponding Derjaguin approximation for the effective interaction between the two cylinders, while capillary forces originating from the extension of the liquid bridge turn out to be more important at large separations. In addition, we are able to infer from the wetting characteristics of the individual colloids the first-order transition of the liquid bridge connecting two colloidal particles to the ruptured state. While specific to cylindrical colloids, the results presented here provide also an outline for identifying critical Casimir forces acting on bridged colloidal particles as such, and for analyzing the bridging transition between them.
arXiv comment23 pages, 12 figures
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