Brownian Motion of Boomerang Colloidal Particles
Soft Condensed Matter
2014-11-18 v2
Abstract
We investigate the Brownian motion of boomerang colloidal particles confined between two glass plates. Our experimental observations show that the mean displacements are biased towards the center of hydrodynamic stress (CoH), and that the mean-square displacements exhibit a crossover from short time faster to long time slower diffusion with the short-time diffusion coefficients dependent on the points used for tracking. A model based on Langevin theory elucidates that these behaviors are ascribed to a superposition of two diffusive modes: the ellipsoidal motion of the CoH and the rotational motion of the tracking point with respect to the CoH.
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@article{arxiv.1308.3656,
title = {Brownian Motion of Boomerang Colloidal Particles},
author = {Ayan Chakrabarty and Andrew Konya and Feng Wang and Jonathan V. Selinger and Kai Sun and Qi-Huo Wei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3656},
year = {2014}
}