Rotational electrophoresis of striped metallic microrods
- 17 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 75 (1), 011503
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.75.011503
Abstract
Analytical models are developed for the translation and rotation of metallic rods in a uniform electric field. The limits of thin and thick electric double layers are considered. These models include the effect of stripes of different metals along the length of the particle. Modeling results are compared to experimental measurements for metallic rods. Experiments demonstrate the increased alignment of particles with increasing field strength and the increase in degree of alignment of thin versus thick electric double layers. The metal rods polarize in the applied field and align parallel to its direction due to torques on the polarized charge. The torque due to polarization has a second-order dependence on the electric field strength. The particles are also shown to have an additional alignment torque component due to nonuniform densities along their length. The orientation distributions of dilute suspensions of particles are also shown to agree well with results predicted by a rotational convective-diffusion equation. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.011503 © 2007 The American Physical SocietyKeywords
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