Effective Pair Interaction of Patchy Particles in Critical Fluids
arXiv:2001.10288 · doi:10.1063/5.0001293
Abstract
We study the critical Casimir interaction between two spherical colloids immersed in a binary liquid mixture close to its critical demixing point. The surface of each colloid prefers one species of the mixture with the exception of a circular patch of arbitrary size, where the other species is preferred. For such objects we calculate, within the Derjaguin approximation, the scaling function describing the critical Casimir potential, and we use it to derive the scaling functions for all components of the forces and torques acting on both colloids. The results are compared with available experimental data. Moreover, the general relation between the scaling function for the potential and the scaling functions for the force and the torque is derived.
arXiv comment30 pages, 15 figures
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