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Competing chemical and hydrodynamic interactions in autophoretic colloidal suspensions.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Cates, ME 

Abstract

At the surfaces of autophoretic colloids, slip velocities arise from local chemical gradients that are many-body functions of particle configuration and activity. For rapid chemical diffusion, coupled with slip-induced hydrodynamic interactions, we deduce the chemohydrodynamic forces and torques between colloids. For bottom-heavy particles above a no-slip wall, the forces can be expressed as gradients of a nonequilibrium potential which, by tuning the type of activity, can be varied from repulsive to attractive. When this potential has a barrier, we find arrested phase separation with a mean cluster size set by competing chemical and hydrodynamic interactions. These are controlled, in turn, by the monopolar and dipolar contributions to the active chemical surface fluxes.

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Keywords

cond-mat.soft, cond-mat.soft, cond-mat.stat-mech

Journal Title

J Chem Phys

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Journal ISSN

0021-9606
1089-7690

Volume Title

151

Publisher

AIP Publishing

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
Royal Society (NF170411)
European Research Council (740269)