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Unravelling the role of phoretic and hydrodynamic interactions in active colloidal suspensions

Scagliarini, Andrea
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Pagonabarraga, Ignacio  
October 14, 2020
Soft Matter

Active fluids comprise a variety of systems composed of elements immersed in a fluid environment which can convert some form of energy into directed motion; as such they are intrinsically out-of-equilibrium in the absence of any external force. A fundamental problem in the physics of active matter concerns the understanding of how the characteristics of autonomous propulsion and agent-agent interactions determine the collective dynamics of the system. We study numerically the suspensions of self-propelled diffusiophoretic colloids, in (quasi)-2d configurations, accounting for both dynamically resolved solute-mediated phoretic interactions and solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions. Our results show that the system displays different scenarios at changing the colloid-solute affinity and it develops a cluster phase in the chemoattractive case. We study the statistics of cluster sizes and cluster morphologies for different magnitudes of colloidal activity. Finally, we provide evidences that hydrodynamics plays a relevant role in the aggregation kinetics and cluster morphology, significantly hindering cluster growth.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/c8sm01831f
Web of Science ID

WOS:000575660900011

Author(s)
Scagliarini, Andrea
Pagonabarraga, Ignacio  
Date Issued

2020-10-14

Publisher

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY

Published in
Soft Matter
Volume

16

Issue

38

Start page

8893

End page

8903

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Multidisciplinary

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Polymer Science

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Chemistry

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Materials Science

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Physics

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lattice-boltzmann

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particulate suspensions

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spinodal decomposition

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simulations

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clusters

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equation

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REVIEWED

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ISIC-GE  
Available on Infoscience
November 24, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/173580
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