title: Influence of temperature and charge effects on thermophoresis of polystyrene beads⋆.
abstract: We study the thermodiffusion behavior of spherical polystyrene beads with a diameter of 25 nm by infrared thermal diffusion Forced Rayleigh Scattering (IR-TDFRS). Similar beads were used to investigate the radial dependence of the Soret coefficient by different authors. While Duhr and Braun (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 9346 (2007)) observed a quadratic radial dependence Braibanti et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 108303 (2008)) found a linear radial dependence of the Soret coefficient. We demonstrated that special care needs to be taken to obtain reliable thermophoretic data, because the measurements are very sensitive to surface properties. The colloidal particles were characterized by transmission electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering (DLS) experiments were performed. We carried out systematic thermophoretic measurements as a function of temperature, buffer and surfactant concentration. The temperature dependence was analyzed using an empirical formula. To describe the Debye length dependence we used a theoretical model by Dhont. The resulting surface charge density is in agreement with previous literature results. Finally, we analyze the dependence of the Soret coefficient on the concentration of the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), applying an empirical thermodynamic approach accounting for chemical contributions.
authors.affiliation: ICS-3, Soft Condensed Matter, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, D-52428, Juelich, Germany.|Institute of High Technologies, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Syshchyk
authors.affiliation: ICS-3, Soft Condensed Matter, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, D-52428, Juelich, Germany.
authors.forename: Dzmitry
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Afanasenkau
authors.affiliation: ICS-3, Soft Condensed Matter, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, D-52428, Juelich, Germany.
authors.forename: Zilin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: ICS-3, Soft Condensed Matter, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, D-52428, Juelich, Germany.
authors.forename: Hartmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kriegs
authors.affiliation: ICS-3, Soft Condensed Matter, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, D-52428, Juelich, Germany.
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buitenhuis
authors.affiliation: ICS-3, Soft Condensed Matter, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, D-52428, Juelich, Germany. S.Wiegand@fz-juelich.de.|Chemistry Department - Physical Chemistry, University Cologne, D-50939, Cologne, Germany. S.Wiegand@fz-juelich.de.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wiegand
keywords: Topical Issue: Non-isothermal transport in complex fluids