title: Note: The effect of viscosity on the rate of diffusion-limited association of nanoparticles.
abstract: In the treatments of diffusion-limited association of suspended nanoparticles, their diffusion coefficients are usually considered to be constant and equal to those given by conventional hydrodynamics for diffusion of single nanoparticles. In reality, according to hydrodynamics, these coefficients depend, however, on the distance between nanoparticles. I show how this dependence can influence the association rate.
authors.affiliation: Section of Biological Physics, Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden and Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.
authors.forename: Vladimir P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Zhdanov
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004058:Diffusion; D057446:Hydrodynamics; D007700:Kinetics; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D014783:Viscosity