Structure of Quasi-One Dimensional Ribbon Colloid Suspensions
Abstract
We report the results of an experimental study of a colloid fluid confined to a quasi-one dimensional (q1D) ribbon channel as a function of channel width and colloid density. Our findings confirm the principal predictions of previous theoretical studies of such systems. These are (1) that the density distribution of the liquid transverse to the ribbon channel exhibits stratification; (2) that even at the highest density the order along the strata, as measured by the longitudinal pair correlation function, is characteristic of a liquid; and (3) the q1D pair correlation functions in different strata exhibits anisotropic behavior, resembling that found in a Monte Carlo simulation for the in-plane pair correlation function of a hard sphere fluid in a planar slit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.3770,
title = {Structure of Quasi-One Dimensional Ribbon Colloid Suspensions},
author = {Thomas R. Stratton and Sergey Novikov and Ream Qato and Sebastian Villarreal and Bianxiao Cui and Stuart A. Rice and Binhua Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3770},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
33 pages, 12 figures, accepted to Physical Review E