Competing chemical and hydrodynamic interactions in autophoretic colloidal suspensions

Abstract

At the surfaces of autophoretic colloids, slip velocities arise from local chemical gradients that are many-body functions of particle configuration and activity. For rapid chemical diffusion, coupled with slip-induced hydrodynamic interactions, we deduce the chemohydrodynamic forces and torques between colloids. Near a no-slip wall, the forces can be expressed as gradients of a non-equilibrium potential which, by tuning the type of activity, can be varied from repulsive to attractive. When this potential has a barrier, we find arrested phase separation with a mean cluster size set by competing chemical and hydrodynamic forces. These are controlled in turn by the monopolar and dipolar contributions to the active chemical surface fluxes.

to appear in the J. Chem. Phys

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