Inhomogeneous Diffusion in Confined Colloidal Suspensions
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| author | Jung, Gerhard Villada-Balbuena, Alejandro Franosch, Thomas |
| author_facet | Jung, Gerhard Villada-Balbuena, Alejandro Franosch, Thomas |
| contents | We have performed confocal microscopy experiments and computer simulations of colloidal suspensions with moderate volume fraction confined between two quasi-parallel, rough walls [A. Villada-Balbuena et al., Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 4699-4714]. Here we investigate many facets of the dynamical properties of the system, such as confined and inhomogeneous diffusion, mean first-passage times and generalized incoherent scattering functions. We observe that the experiment features strong footprints of the confinement in the dynamical properties, such as inhomogeneous diffusion coefficients and non-zero off-diagonal elements in the incoherent scattering function which we can quantitatively model and analyze with computer simulations. This allows us, for example, to systematically investigate the impact of surface roughness. Our comparative study therefore advances the fundamental understanding of the impact of confinement on dynamics in fluids and colloidal suspensions. |
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| spellingShingle | Inhomogeneous Diffusion in Confined Colloidal Suspensions Jung, Gerhard Villada-Balbuena, Alejandro Franosch, Thomas Soft Condensed Matter We have performed confocal microscopy experiments and computer simulations of colloidal suspensions with moderate volume fraction confined between two quasi-parallel, rough walls [A. Villada-Balbuena et al., Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 4699-4714]. Here we investigate many facets of the dynamical properties of the system, such as confined and inhomogeneous diffusion, mean first-passage times and generalized incoherent scattering functions. We observe that the experiment features strong footprints of the confinement in the dynamical properties, such as inhomogeneous diffusion coefficients and non-zero off-diagonal elements in the incoherent scattering function which we can quantitatively model and analyze with computer simulations. This allows us, for example, to systematically investigate the impact of surface roughness. Our comparative study therefore advances the fundamental understanding of the impact of confinement on dynamics in fluids and colloidal suspensions. |
| title | Inhomogeneous Diffusion in Confined Colloidal Suspensions |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20692 |