Stratification of drying particle suspensions: Comparison of implicit and explicit solvent simulations
arXiv:1810.05483 · doi:10.1063/1.5066035
Abstract
Large scale molecular dynamics simulations are used to study drying suspensions of a binary mixture of large and small particles in explicit and implicit solvents. The solvent is first modeled explicitly and then mapped to a uniform viscous medium by matching the diffusion coefficients and the pair correlation functions of the particles. `Small-on-top' stratification of the particles, with an enrichment of the smaller ones at the receding liquid-vapor interface during drying, is observed in both models under the same drying conditions. With the implicit solvent model, we are able to model much thicker films and study the effect of the initial film thickness on the final distribution of particles in the dry film. Our results show that the degree of stratification is controlled by the Péclet number defined using the initial film thickness as the characteristic length scale. When the Péclet numbers of large and small particles are much larger than 1, the degree of `small-on-top' stratification is first enhanced and then weakens as the Péclet numbers are increased.
arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures
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