1
|
Abbasian Chaleshtari Z, Foudazi R. Rheological study of nanoemulsions with repulsive and attractive interdroplet interactions. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:8337-8348. [PMID: 37873582 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00932g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
Abstract
Nanoemulsions have adjustable transparency, tunable rheology, high stability, and low sensitivity to changes in pH and temperature, which make them interesting for applications such as low-fat and low-calorie foods. In this research, we study model concentrated nanoemulsions which are stabilized by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). To prepare samples in different structural states, semi-dilute nanoemulsions are prepared at 25% droplet volume fraction (φ), after which evaporating the continuous phase at room temperature leads to concentrated nanoemulsions up to 60% volume fraction. Surfactant concentration is also tuned to induce different interdroplet interactions so that concentrated nanoemulsions in repulsive glass, attractive glass, and gel states are achieved. Rheological properties of nanoemulsions with different structural states are comprehensively studied over a volume fraction range. Utilizing the existing predictive models for (nano)emulsion rheology reveals a more satisfactory prediction for repulsive systems than systems with attractive interactions. In addition, a master curve is constructed for storage and loss moduli of nanoemulsions with different interdroplet interactions. The present work offers control over physicochemical properties of nanoemulsions for design of new food products with enhanced quality and functionality.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
| | - Reza Foudazi
- School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
| |
Collapse
|
2
|
Goujard S, Suau JM, Chaub A, Guigner JM, Bizien T, Cloitre M. Glassy states in adsorbing surfactant-microgel soft nanocomposites. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 33:404003. [PMID: 34237714 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac1282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Mixtures of polymer-colloid hybrids such as star polymers and microgels with non-adsorbing polymeric additives have received a lot of attention. In these materials, the interplay between entropic forces and softness is responsible for a wealth of phenomena. By contrast, binary mixtures where one component can adsorb onto the other one have been far less studied. Yet real formulations in applications often contain low molecular weight additives that can adsorb onto soft colloids. Here we study the microstructure and rheology of soft nanocomposites made of surfactants and microgels using linear and nonlinear rheology, SAXS experiments, and cryo-TEM techniques. The results are used to build a dynamical state diagram encompassing various liquid, glassy, jammed, metastable, and reentrant liquid states, which results from a subtle interplay between enthalpic, entropic, and kinetic effects. We rationalize the rheological properties of the nanocomposites in each domain of the state diagram, thus providing exquisite solutions for designing new rheology modifiers at will.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Sarah Goujard
- Molecular, Macromolecular Chemistry and Materials, ESPCI Paris, CNRS, PSL University, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
| | | | - Arnaud Chaub
- Molecular, Macromolecular Chemistry and Materials, ESPCI Paris, CNRS, PSL University, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
| | - Jean-Michel Guigner
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7590 Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC)-IRD-MNHN, 75005 Paris, France
| | - Thomas Bizien
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin BP 48, Gif-sur-Yvette 91190, France
| | - Michel Cloitre
- Molecular, Macromolecular Chemistry and Materials, ESPCI Paris, CNRS, PSL University, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
| |
Collapse
|
3
|
Shangwei L, Urakawa O, Inoue T. Rheo-Optical Study on the Viscoelastic Relaxation Modes of a Microgel Particle Suspension around the Liquid–Solid Transition Regime. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Li Shangwei
- Department of Macromolecular Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
| | - Osamu Urakawa
- Department of Macromolecular Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
| | - Tadashi Inoue
- Department of Macromolecular Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
| |
Collapse
|
4
|
Liu X, Utomo NW, Zhao Q, Zheng J, Zhang D, Archer LA. Effects of Geometric Confinement on Caging and Dynamics of Polymer-Tethered Nanoparticle Suspensions. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
|
5
|
Lee JY, Sung M, Seo H, Park YJ, Lee JB, Shin SS, Lee Y, Shin K, Kim JW. Temperature-responsive interdrop association of condensed attractive nanoemulsions. J IND ENG CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2020.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
|
6
|
Guerra RE. Lindemann Unjamming of Emulsions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:218001. [PMID: 32530672 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.218001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
We study the bulk and shear elastic properties of barely-compressed, "athermal" emulsions and find that the rigidity of the jammed solid fails at remarkably large critical osmotic pressures. The minuscule yield strain and similarly small Brownian particle displacement of solid emulsions close to this transition suggests that this catastrophic failure corresponds to a plastic-entropic instability: the solid becomes too soft and weak to resist the thermal agitation of the droplets that compose it and fails. We propose a modified Lindemann stability criterion to describe this transition and derive a scaling law for the critical osmotic pressure that agrees quantitatively with experimental observations.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Rodrigo E Guerra
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
| |
Collapse
|
7
|
Liu X, Abel BA, Zhao Q, Li S, Choudhury S, Zheng J, Archer LA. Microscopic Origins of Caging and Equilibration of Self-Suspended Hairy Nanoparticles. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
|
8
|
Hao B, Yu W. A New Solid-like State for Liquid/Liquid/Particle Mixtures with Bicontinuous Morphology of Concentrated Emulsion and Concentrated Suspension. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:9529-9537. [PMID: 31251879 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Research in exploring the microstructures of the ternary liquid/liquid/particle mixture is still a challenging task due to the complex interface properties and compositions of each phase. In this work, we report a new kind of solid-like state for ternary mixtures after the addition of a surfactant, which has the bicontinuous morphology of two phases, that is, the concentrated emulsion and the concentrated noncolloidal suspension. The bicontinuous morphology was justified by optical microscopy and the unique two-step yielding behavior under large oscillatory shear flow, which has the yielding character of a noncolloidal suspension at smaller strain and that of a concentrated emulsion at larger strain. A phase diagram is constructed from the rheological measurements and morphological observations. The boundaries of the new solid-like state can be well predicted from three basic requirements on the glass forming or jamming conditions in the aqueous noncolloidal suspension phase, the aqueous emulsion phase, and the whole ternary mixture.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Bonan Hao
- Advanced Rheology Institute, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Metal Matrix Composite Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200240 , P. R. China
| | - Wei Yu
- Advanced Rheology Institute, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Metal Matrix Composite Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200240 , P. R. China
| |
Collapse
|
9
|
Conley GM, Zhang C, Aebischer P, Harden JL, Scheffold F. Relationship between rheology and structure of interpenetrating, deforming and compressing microgels. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2436. [PMID: 31164639 PMCID: PMC6547648 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10181-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Thermosensitive microgels are widely studied hybrid systems combining properties of polymers and colloidal particles in a unique way. Due to their complex morphology, their interactions and packing, and consequentially the viscoelasticity of suspensions made from microgels, are still not fully understood, in particular under dense packing conditions. Here we study the frequency-dependent linear viscoelastic properties of dense suspensions of micron sized soft particles in conjunction with an analysis of the local particle structure and morphology based on superresolution microscopy. By identifying the dominating mechanisms that control the elastic and dissipative response, we can explain the rheology of these widely studied soft particle assemblies from the onset of elasticity deep into the overpacked regime. Interestingly, our results suggest that the friction between the microgels is reduced due to lubrification mediated by the polymer brush-like corona before the onset of interpenetration.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Gaurasundar M Conley
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
| | - Chi Zhang
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
| | - Philippe Aebischer
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
| | - James L Harden
- Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
| | - Frank Scheffold
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
| |
Collapse
|
10
|
Modeling the influence of effective oil volume fraction and droplet repulsive interaction on nanoemulsion gelation. J FOOD ENG 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2018.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
|
11
|
Höhler R, Weaire D. Can liquid foams and emulsions be modeled as packings of soft elastic particles? Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 263:19-37. [PMID: 30502655 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2018.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Revised: 11/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/03/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Abstract
When two immersed bubbles are pushed against each other, a facet is formed at their contact, leading to an increase of interfacial energy and hence a repulsive interaction force. Foams (and concentrated emulsions) in mechanical equilibrium may thus be modeled as an assembly of soft elastic interacting particles. Such a model has been used in many studies of their structure and mechanical properties, in particular near the jamming transition (or wet limit) where the contact forces are so small that bubbles remain roughly spherical. We review analytical ab initio models and simulations, based on the equilibration of pressure and surface tension forces or, equivalently, minimization of interfacial energy. Two-body interaction behavior dominates asymptotically at packing fractions approaching the jamming transition, but the interaction is intrinsically anharmonic and cannot be captured by a power law. This phenomenon was first identified by D. Morse and T. Witten: we offer a detailed analysis and transparent derivation of their classic result. For packing fractions well above the jamming transition point, the coupling among contacts mediated by bubble volume conservation has a significant impact on the macroscopic elastic response of foam. This effect is captured by a many-body interaction law, derived from first principles. Applications are explored in two and three dimensions, as are future directions for this kind of theory.
Collapse
|
12
|
Braibanti M, Kim HS, Şenbil N, Pagenkopp MJ, Mason TG, Scheffold F. The liquid-glass-jamming transition in disordered ionic nanoemulsions. Sci Rep 2017; 7:13879. [PMID: 29118340 PMCID: PMC5678350 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13584-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Accepted: 09/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
In quenched disordered out-of-equilibrium many-body colloidal systems, there are important distinctions between the glass transition, which is related to the onset of nonergodicity and loss of low-frequency relaxations caused by crowding, and the jamming transition, which is related to the dramatic increase in elasticity of the system caused by the deformation of constituent objects. For softer repulsive interaction potentials, these two transitions become increasingly smeared together, so measuring a clear distinction between where the glass ends and where jamming begins becomes very difficult or even impossible. Here, we investigate droplet dynamics in concentrated silicone oil-in-water nanoemulsions using light scattering. For zero or low NaCl electrolyte concentrations, interfacial repulsions are soft and longer in range, this transition sets in at lower concentrations, and the glass and the jamming regimes are smeared. However, at higher electrolyte concentrations the interactions are stiffer, and the characteristics of the glass-jamming transition resemble more closely the situation of disordered elastic spheres having sharp interfaces, so the glass and jamming regimes can be distinguished more clearly.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Marco Braibanti
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
| | - Ha Seong Kim
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
| | - Nesrin Şenbil
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
| | - Matthew J Pagenkopp
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
| | - Thomas G Mason
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
| | - Frank Scheffold
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
| |
Collapse
|
13
|
Conley GM, Aebischer P, Nöjd S, Schurtenberger P, Scheffold F. Jamming and overpacking fuzzy microgels: Deformation, interpenetration, and compression. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2017; 3:e1700969. [PMID: 29062888 PMCID: PMC5650484 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
Tuning the solubility of fuzzy polymer microgels by external triggers, such as temperature or pH, provides a unique mechanism for controlling the porosity and size of colloidal particles on the nanoscale. As a consequence, these smart microgel particles are being considered for applications ranging from viscosity modifiers and sensing to drug delivery and as models for the glass and the jamming transition. Despite their widespread use, little is known about how these soft particles adapt their shape and size under strong mechanical compression. We use a combination of precise labeling protocols and two-color superresolution microscopy to unravel the behavior of tracer microgels inside densely packed soft solids. We find that interpenetration and shape deformation are dominant until, in the highly overpacked state, this mechanism saturates and the only remaining way to further densify the system is by isotropic compression.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Gaurasundar M. Conley
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
| | - Philippe Aebischer
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
| | - Sofi Nöjd
- Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
| | - Peter Schurtenberger
- Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
| | - Frank Scheffold
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
- Corresponding author.
| |
Collapse
|
14
|
Kim HS, Mason TG. Advances and challenges in the rheology of concentrated emulsions and nanoemulsions. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2017; 247:397-412. [PMID: 28821349 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2017.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Accepted: 07/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
We review advances that have been made in the rheology of concentrated emulsions and nanoemulsions, which can serve as model soft materials that have highly tunable viscoelastic properties at droplet volume fractions near and above the glass transition and jamming point. As revealed by experiments, simulations, and theoretical models, interfacial and positional structures of droplets can depend on the applied flow history and osmotic pressure that an emulsion has experienced, thereby influencing its key rheological properties such as viscoelastic moduli, yield stress and strain, and flow behavior. We emphasize studies of monodisperse droplets, since these have led to breakthroughs in the fundamental understanding of dispersed soft matter. This review also covers the rheological properties of attractive emulsions, which can exhibit a dominant elasticity even at droplet volume fractions far below maximal random jamming of hard spheres.
Collapse
|
15
|
Helgeson ME. Colloidal behavior of nanoemulsions: Interactions, structure, and rheology. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2016.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
|
16
|
Dinkgreve M, Paredes J, Michels MAJ, Bonn D. Universal rescaling of flow curves for yield-stress fluids close to jamming. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:012305. [PMID: 26274160 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.012305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
The experimental flow curves of four different yield-stress fluids with different interparticle interactions are studied near the jamming concentration. By appropriate scaling with the distance to jamming all rheology data can be collapsed onto master curves below and above jamming that meet in the shear-thinning regime and satisfy the Herschel-Bulkley and Cross equations, respectively. In spite of differing interactions in the different systems, master curves characterized by universal scaling exponents are found for the four systems. A two-state microscopic theory of heterogeneous dynamics is presented to rationalize the observed transition from Herschel-Bulkley to Cross behavior and to connect the rheological exponents to microscopic exponents for the divergence of the length and time scales of the heterogeneous dynamics. The experimental data and the microscopic theory are compared with much of the available literature data for yield-stress systems.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- M Dinkgreve
- Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1018 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - J Paredes
- Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1018 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - M A J Michels
- Theory of Polymers and Soft Matter, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, P. O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
| | - D Bonn
- Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1018 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| |
Collapse
|
17
|
Ikeda A, Berthier L. Thermal fluctuations, mechanical response, and hyperuniformity in jammed solids. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:012309. [PMID: 26274164 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.012309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
Jamming is a geometric phase transition occurring in dense particle systems in the absence of temperature. We use computer simulations to analyze the effect of thermal fluctuations on several signatures of the transition. We show that scaling laws for bulk and shear moduli only become relevant when thermal fluctuations are extremely small, and propose their relative ratio as a quantitative signature of jamming criticality. Despite the nonequilibrium nature of the transition, we find that thermally induced fluctuations and mechanical responses obey equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation relations near jamming, provided the appropriate fluctuating component of the particle displacements is analyzed. This shows that mechanical moduli can be directly measured from particle positions in mechanically unperturbed packings, and suggests that the definition of a "nonequilibrium index" is unnecessary for amorphous materials. We find that fluctuations of particle displacements are spatially correlated, and define a transverse and a longitudinal correlation length scale which both diverge as the jamming transition is approached. We analyze the frozen component of density fluctuations and find that it displays signatures of nearly hyperuniform behavior at large length scales. This demonstrates that hyperuniformity in jammed packings is unrelated to a vanishing compressibility and explains why it appears remarkably robust against temperature and density variations. Differently from jamming criticality, obstacles preventing the observation of hyperuniformity in colloidal systems do not originate from thermal fluctuations.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Atsushi Ikeda
- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Ludovic Berthier
- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, UMR 5221 CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
| |
Collapse
|
18
|
Zhang C, O'Donovan CB, Corwin EI, Cardinaux F, Mason TG, Möbius ME, Scheffold F. Structure of marginally jammed polydisperse packings of frictionless spheres. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:032302. [PMID: 25871105 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.032302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
We model the packing structure of a marginally jammed bulk ensemble of polydisperse spheres. To this end we expand on the granocentric model [Clusel et al., Nature (London) 460, 611 (2009)], explicitly taking into account rattlers. This leads to a relationship between the characteristic parameters of the packing, such as the mean number of neighbors and the fraction of rattlers, and the radial distribution function g(r). We find excellent agreement between the model predictions for g(r) and packing simulations, as well as experiments on jammed emulsion droplets. The observed quantitative agreement opens the path towards a full structural characterization of jammed particle systems for imaging and scattering experiments.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Chi Zhang
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
| | | | - Eric I Corwin
- Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
| | - Frédéric Cardinaux
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
| | - Thomas G Mason
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
| | | | - Frank Scheffold
- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
| |
Collapse
|
19
|
Cohen-Addad S, Höhler R. Rheology of foams and highly concentrated emulsions. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2014.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
|
20
|
|
21
|
Dubbelboer A, Janssen J, Hoogland H, Mudaliar A, Maindarkar S, Zondervan E, Meuldijk J. Population balances combined with Computational Fluid Dynamics: A modeling approach for dispersive mixing in a high pressure homogenizer. Chem Eng Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.06.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
|