title: Role of anisotropy in electrodynamically induced colloidal aggregates.
abstract: We investigate the assembly of spherical and anisotropic colloidal particles with the shape of peanuts when subjected to an external alternating electric field. By varying the strength and frequency of the applied field, we observe that both types of particles form clusters at low frequencies due to attractive electrohydrodynamic interactions or disperse into a liquidlike phase at high frequencies due to repulsive dipolar interactions. We characterize the observed structures via pair correlation functions and radius of gyration, and observe a clear difference in the ordering process between the isotropic and anisotropic colloids. Further on, we interpret the cluster formation kinetics in terms of dynamic scaling theory, and observe a faster aggregation of the anisotropic colloids with respect to the isotropic ones.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Sergi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hernández-Navarro
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ignés-Mullol
authors.forename: Francesc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sagués
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tierno