AFM colloidal forces measured between microscopic probes and flat substrates in nanoparticle suspensions

Drelich, Jaroslaw; Long, J. V. P.; Xu, Zhenghe; Masliyah, Jacob H.; Nalaskowski, Jakub; Beauchamp, R.; Liu, Y.

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2006.05.044

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“…The surface force apparatus (SFA) [62,63] and colloidal-probe AFM (CP-AFM) [52,53] gauge the forces with bending of a calibrated spring. Prominently, micelles [58,[64][65][66][67][68][69] and spherical nanoparticles (particularly SiO 2 [29,52,53,68,[70][71][72]) are among most widely studied model nanofluids for mediating depletion and related structural forces, with nanorods-mediated depletion also measured [60,61].…”

Section: Direct Measurement Of Depletion and Structural Forces Betweementioning

confidence: 99%

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Depletion forces between particles immersed in nanofluids

Briscoe

2015

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“…In another study the oscillation period of the structural force was reported to be closely related to the nanoparticle size, with the oscillations also appearing anharmonic -deviating from the description by Eq. (4) [70].…”

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Depletion forces between particles immersed in nanofluids

Briscoe

2015

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“…Recently, the direct oscillatory force of nanoparticles was obtained by Piech, Tulpar, and Drelich et al [9][10][11] with colloidal probe atomic force microscopy (CP-AFM), which was developed by Ducker and Butt 12,13 and showed an advantage in measuring the complete oscillatory force curves for various systems.…”

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Effect of particle size and Debye length on order parameters of colloidal silica suspensions under confinement

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Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), we show a full comparison between structuring of nanoparticles in confinement and in bulk in order to explain the effect of confinement on characteristic lengths and the scaling law of the characteristic lengths. Three different-sized particle suspensions are used to check the generalization and the correlation between the characteristic lengths and the system parameters, like particle diameter and Debye length. The two characteristic lengths obtained from AFM force curves, the oscillatory wavelength l, which is related to the average particle distance, and the decay length x, which measures how far particle correlates to obtain periodic oscillations, are in good agreement with the mean particle distance 2p/q max and the correlation length 2/Dq in bulk, respectively, obtained from the structure peaks of SAXS diagrams. Although confinement causes layering of nanoparticles parallel to the confining surfaces, the characteristic lengths in the direction perpendicular to the confining surfaces follow the bulk behavior. The wavelength scales as r À1/3 with the particle number density r irrespective of the particle size and the ionic strength and shows a pure volume effect. Upon comparing with literature results, the l ¼ r À1/3 scaling law can be applied more generally for charged particles, as long as the repulsive interaction is sufficiently long-ranged, than the previous expression of l ¼ 2(R + k À1 ), which only approaches the value of average particle distance under specific conditions. The decay length x is controlled both by the particle size and the ionic strength of the suspensions, and x ¼ R + k À1 is proposed in the paper. In addition, the interaction strength, the force amplitude and maximum scattering intensity, increases linearly with particle concentration. On the other hand, the Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and approximate hypernetted chain (HNC) closure calculation based on Derjaguin-Landau-VerweyOverbeek (DLVO) potential are employed to study the characteristic lengths from the theoretical point of view. The experimental wavelengths are in good agreement with the theoretical counterparts and the experimental decay lengths show the same qualitative behavior as theoretical ones on the particle size and ionic strength.

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“…Recently, many research groups, including this one, have used CP-AFM to measure forces between colloidal particles in suspensions of nanoparticles [22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. In many cases, the focus was on negatively-adsorbing nanoparticles, such that a depletion interaction was produced at short ranges due to exclusion of the nanoparticles from the gap region [29,30].…”

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confidence: 99%