Charge Stabilization in Nonpolar Solvents

@article{citeulike:2710262, abstract = {Abstract: While the important role of electrostatic interactions in aqueous colloidal suspensions is widely known and reasonably well-understood, their relevance to nonpolar suspensions remains mysterious. We measure the interaction potentials of colloidal particles in a nonpolar solvent with reverse micelles. We find surprisingly strong electrostatic interactions characterized by surface potentials, e, from 2.0 to 4.4 kBT and screening lengths, -1, from 0.2 to 1.4 m. Interactions depend on the concentration of reverse micelles and the degree of confinement. Furthermore, when the particles are weakly confined, the values of e and extracted from interaction measurements are consistent with bulk measurements of conductivity and electrophoretic mobility. A simple thermodynamic model, relating the structure of the micelles to the equilibrium ionic strength, is in good agreement with both conductivity and interaction measurements. Since dissociated ions are solubilized by reverse micelles, the entropic incentive to charge a particle surface is qualitatively changed from aqueous systems, and surface entropy plays an important role.}, address = {DEAS and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138}, author = {Hsu, M. F. and Dufresne, E. R. and Weitz, D. A. }, citeulike-article-id = {2710262}, doi = {10.1021/la046751m}, journal = {Langmuir}, keywords = {micelle, weitz}, month = {May}, number = {11}, pages = {4881--4887}, posted-at = {2008-04-23 22:27:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Charge Stabilization in Nonpolar Solvents}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la046751m}, volume = {21}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2710262 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2710262 TI - Charge Stabilization in Nonpolar Solvents JF - Langmuir VL - 21 IS - 11 SP - 4881 EP - 4887 AD - DEAS and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 N2 - Abstract: While the important role of electrostatic interactions in aqueous colloidal suspensions is widely known and reasonably well-understood, their relevance to nonpolar suspensions remains mysterious. We measure the interaction potentials of colloidal particles in a nonpolar solvent with reverse micelles. We find surprisingly strong electrostatic interactions characterized by surface potentials, e, from 2.0 to 4.4 kBT and screening lengths, -1, from 0.2 to 1.4 m. Interactions depend on the concentration of reverse micelles and the degree of confinement. Furthermore, when the particles are weakly confined, the values of e and extracted from interaction measurements are consistent with bulk measurements of conductivity and electrophoretic mobility. A simple thermodynamic model, relating the structure of the micelles to the equilibrium ionic strength, is in good agreement with both conductivity and interaction measurements. Since dissociated ions are solubilized by reverse micelles, the entropic incentive to charge a particle surface is qualitatively changed from aqueous systems, and surface entropy plays an important role. KW - micelle KW - weitz AU - Hsu, MF AU - Dufresne, ER AU - Weitz, DA PY - 2005/05/24/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la046751m ER -