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Electrophoresis of slender particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Yuri Solomentsev  and
John L. Anderson
Yuri Solomentsev
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
John L. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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Abstract

The hydrodynamic theory of slender bodies is used to model electrophoretic motion of a slender particle having a charge (zeta potential) that varies with position along its length. The theory is limited to systems where the Debye screening length of the solution is much less than the typical cross-sectional dimension of the particle. A stokeslet representation of the hydrodynamic force is combined with the Lorentz reciprocal theorem for Stokes flow to develop a set of linear equations which must be solved for the components of the translational and angular velocities of the particle. Sample calculations are presented for the electrophoretic motion of straight spheroids and cylinders and a torus in a uniform electric field. The theory is also applied to a straight uniformly charged particle in a spatially varying electric field. The uniformly charged particle rotates into alignment with the principal axes of ∇E∞; we suggest that such alignment can lead to electrophoretic transport of particles through a small aperture in an otherwise impermeable wall. The theory developed here is more general than just for electrophoresis, since the final result is expressed in terms of a general 'slip velocity’ at the surface of the particle. Thus, the results are applicable to diffusiophoresis of slender particles if the proper slip-velocity coefficient is used.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 279 , 25 November 1994 , pp. 197 - 215
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© 1994 Cambridge University Press

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