Experimental study of confined diffusion of rough and smooth ellipsoidal colloids

Liang Jian; Wang Hua-Guang; Zhang Ze-Xin

doi:10.7498/aps.73.20240559

Abstract

The study of diffusion in complex confined environments has received great attention in the field of condensed matter physics. The emergence of colloidal systems provides an excellent experimental model system for quantitatively studying the confined diffusion of microscopic particles. When colloidal particles change from spherical to ellipsoidal shape, the system presents anisotropic diffusion dynamics. Recent studies have found that rough surfaces, another important physical parameter of colloids, can lead to unusual rotational dynamics in spherical colloidal systems. However, due to the lack of a suitable experimental system, little is known about the effect of rough surfaces on the confined diffusion of ellipsoidal colloidal particles. In this work, rough colloidal spheres, rough colloidal ellipsoids, and smooth colloidal ellipsoids are prepared, and then monolayer colloidal samples are prepared to study the confined diffusions of these two types of ellipsoids in dense packing of the rough sphere colloids. By calculating the mean square displacement, intermediate self-scattering function, and orientation correlation function of the ellipsoids, we quantitatively characterize the diffusion dynamics of rough and smooth ellipsoids in varying concentrations of rough spheres. The results indicate that the translational diffusion and rotational diffusion of rough ellipsoids and smooth ellipsoids slow down as the concentration of rough spheres increases. This is due to the confinement of the ellipsoid by the surrounding spheres. At low stacking fractions of spheres, smooth and rough ellipsoids show similar translational diffusion and rotational diffusion. However, as the stacking fraction of spheres increases, there is a significant difference in advection diffusion between rough ellipsoids and smooth ellipsoids. The advection diffusion of rough ellipsoids is significantly slower than that of smooth ellipsoids. This is because the rough surface strongly inhibits rotation, meaning that the rotational diffusion of the rough ellipsoids is significantly slower than that of the smooth ellipsoids. By extracting the diffusion coefficients for translation and rotation from the ellipsoid's long-time mean-square displacements, we find that at ϕ = 0.60 and 0.65, the diffusion coefficients of rough ellipsoids are smaller than those of smooth ellipsoids. The translational diffusion coefficient of the rough ellipsoids is notably smaller than that of the smooth ellipsoids. However, the rotation diffusion coefficient of the rough ellipsoids is not significantly different from that of the smooth ellipsoids. This suggests that the rough surface mainly affect translational diffusion, strongly suppressing the translational diffusion of the ellipsoids. By calculating the displacement probability distribution for ellipsoidal motion, we find that at ϕ = 0.65, the translational displacements of rough ellipsoids have a relatively narrow distribution. This suggests that the translational motion of particles is suppressed by the rough surface. However, the distributions of rotation displacement for smooth ellipsoids and rough ellipsoids are very similar, indicating that the rough surface has less influence on particle rotation. At ϕ = 0.74, the rough surface suppresses both the translation and the rotation of the ellipsoid, resulting in a narrower displacement distribution than in the case of smooth ellipsoid. These findings suggest that rough surfaces significantly impede ellipsoidal diffusion, leading the translational and rotational motions not to occur simultaneously. This study provides an in-depth understanding of the role of rough surfaces of colloidal particles in confined diffusion, as well as an experimental basis for explaining the diffusion laws of rough materials.

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College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research, School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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Institute for Advanced Study, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China

Corresponding author: Wang Hua-Guang, hgwang@suda.edu.cn ; Zhang Ze-Xin, zhangzx@suda.edu.cn

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12074275, 11704269) and the Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant Nos. 20KJA150008, 17KJB140020).

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图 1 制备的胶体粒子的扫描电镜图像　(a) 粗糙圆球; (b) 粗糙椭球; (c) 光滑椭球; (d) 单层样品的示意图; (e) 粗糙椭球在粗糙圆球体系(ϕ = 0.74)中的明场显微镜照片

Figure 1. SEM images of the as-prepared colloidal particles: (a) Rough spheres; (b) rough ellipsoids; (c) smooth ellipsoids; (d) schematic diagram of a monolayer sample, rough and smooth ellipsoids in a dense packing of rough spheres; (e) bright-field micrographs of a rough ellipsoid among rough spheres (ϕ = 0.74).

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图 2 在不同圆球浓度(ϕ)下, 粗糙椭球和光滑椭球的平动均方位移(a)和转动均方位移(b). 实心符号表示光滑椭球, 空心符号表示粗糙椭球

Figure 2. Translational (a) and rotational (b) MSDs for rough (hollow symbols) and smooth (solid symbols) ellipsoids at different concentrations (ϕ) of microspheres.

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图 3 粗糙椭球和光滑椭球的扩散系数　(a) 平动扩散系数; (b) 转动扩散系数. D_TS和D_RS表示光滑椭球的扩散系数, D_TR和D_RR表示粗糙椭球的扩散系数. 误差是通过测量不同粒子的扩散系数得到的

Figure 3. The diffusion coefficients of the rough ellipsoid (D_TR and D_RR) and smooth ellipsoid (D_TS and D_RS): (a) Translational diffusion coefficient; (b) rotational diffusion coefficient. Error bars are obtained by measuring the diffusion coefficients of different particles.

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图 4 椭球运动10 s的位移概率分布　(a) 平动位移; (b) 转动位移. 实心符号表示光滑椭球, 空心表示粗糙椭球

Figure 4. The probability distributions of the displacements of the smooth ellipsoid (solid symbol) and rough ellipsoid (hollow symbol) for lag time of 10 s: (a) Translational displacement; (b) rotational displacement.

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图 5 在不同圆球浓度(ϕ)下, 粗糙椭球和光滑椭球的F_S (q = 3.6 μm^–1, t)和L₇ (t). 实心符号表示光滑椭球, 空心表示粗糙椭球

Figure 5. F_S (q = 3.6 μm^–1, t) and L₇ (t) of the smooth ellipsoid (solid symbol) and rough ellipsoid (hollow symbol) at different concentrations (ϕ).

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