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From hindered to promoted settling in dispersions of attractive colloids: Simulation, modeling, and application to macromolecular characterization

Andrew M. Fiore, Gang Wang, and James W. Swan*

  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  • *jswan@mit.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 063302 – Published 15 June, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.063302

Abstract

The settling of colloidal particles with short-ranged attractions is investigated via highly resolved immersed boundary simulations. At modest volume fractions, we show that intercolloid attractions lead to clustering that reduces the hinderance to settling imposed by fluid back flow. For sufficient attraction strength, increasing the particle concentration grows the particle clusters, which further increases the mean settling rate in a physical mode termed promoted settling. The immersed boundary simulations are compared to recent experimental measurements of the settling rate in nanoparticle dispersions for which particles are driven to aggregate by short-ranged depletion attractions. The simulations are able to quantitatively reproduce the experimental results. We show that a simple, empirical model for the settling rate of adhesive hard-sphere dispersions can be derived from a combination of the experimental and computational data as well as analytical results valid in certain asymptotic limits of the concentration and attraction strength. This model naturally extends the Richardson-Zaki formalism used to describe hindered settling of hard, repulsive spheres. Experimental measurements of the collective diffusion coefficient in concentrated solutions of globular proteins are used to illustrate inference of effective interaction parameters for sticky, globular macromolecules using this empirical model. Finally, application of the simulation methods and empirical model to other colloidal systems are discussed.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 063302– Published 15 June, 2018
  • Received 28 March 2018
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