Ionic Effects in Ionic Diffusiophoresis in Chemically Driven Active Colloids
- 13 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 127 (16), 168001
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.168001
Abstract
We study experimentally the effect of added salt in the phoretic motion of chemically driven colloidal particles. We show that the response of passive colloids to a fixed active colloid, be it attractive or repulsive, depends on the ionic strength, the potential, and the size of the passive colloids. We further report that the direction of self-propulsion of Janus colloids can be reversed by decreasing their potential below a critical value. By constructing an effective model that treats the colloid and ions as a whole subjected to the concentration field of generated ions and takes into account the joint effect of both generated and background ions in determining the Debye length, we demonstrate that the response of the passive colloids and the velocity of the Janus colloids can be quantitatively captured by this model under the ionic diffusiophoresis theory beyond the infinitely-thin-double-layer limit.
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (11774237)
- Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality (JCYJ20170818141727254)
- Innovation Program of Guangdong Provincial Department of Education (2019KTSCX148)
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