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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 376, Issue 1-3, Pages 72-75Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.09.012
Keywords
Soft particle; Electrophoretic mobility; Relaxation effect
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An approximate analytic expression is derived for the electrophoretic mobility of a soft particle, that is, a hard particle of radius a covered with an ion-penetrable surface layer of polyelectrolytes of thickness d in an electrolyte solution of concentration n under conditions at which kappa a >> 1, kappa d >> 1, lambda a >> 1, and lambda d >> 1 (where kappa = Debye-Huckel parameter and 1/lambda = softness parameter). The obtained expression is an improvement of a previously derived mobility expression [Ohshima, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 163 (1994) 474; ibid. 228 (2000) 190] by taking into account the relaxation effect for the region outside the surface charge layer so that it can be applicable for arbitrary values of the density N of fixed-charges in the surface charge layer. It is observed that the electrophoretic mobility plotted as a function of N or n exhibits a maximum due to the relaxation effect. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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