Direct measurement of osmotic pressure via adaptive confinement of quasi hard disc colloids

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Williams, Ian ^a,b   Oǧuz, Erdal C ^c   Bartlett, Paul ^a   Löwen, Hartmut ^c   Royall, C Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information   (United Kingdom)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID; ELASTICITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OSMOSIS; POROUS MEDIUM;

ADAPTIVE CONFINEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COLLOID; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; HOLOGRAPHY; LIQUID; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; ETHANOL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; POLYSTYRENES; POROSITY; PRESSURE; WATER;

EID: 84885360087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3555     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Németh, Z. T. & Löwen, H. Freezing in finite systems: hard discs in circular cavities. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 10, 6189-6204 (1998).
2. Németh, Z. T. & Löwen, H. Freezing and glass transition of hard spheres in cavities. Phys. Rev. E 59, 6824-6829 (1999).
3. Deb, D. et al. Hard sphere fluids at a soft repulsive wall: A comparative study using Monte Carlo and density functional methods. J. Chem. Phys. 134, 214706 (2011).
4. Curk, T. et al. Layering, freezing, and re-entrant melting of hard spheres in soft confinement. Phys. Rev. E 85, 021502 (2012).
5. Teboul, V. & Simionesco, C. A. Properties of a confined molecular glassforming liquid. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 14, 5699-5709 (2002).
6. Scheidler, P., Kob, W. & Binder, K. Static and dynamical properties of a supercooled liquid confined in a pore. J. Phys. IV France 10, Pr7-33-Pr7-36 (2000).
7. Bubeck, R., Bechinger, C., Neser, S. & Leiderer, P. Melting and reentrant freezing of two-dimensional colloidal crystals in confined geometry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3364-3367 (1999).
8. Bechinger, C. Colloidal suspensions in confined geometries. Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 7, 204-209 (2002).
9. Nugent, C. R., Edmond, K. V., Patel, H. V. & Weeks, E. R. Colloidal glass transition observed in confinement. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025702 (2007).
10. Eral, H. B., van den Ende, D., Mugele, F. & Duits, M. H. G. Influence of confinement by smooth and rough walls on particle dynamics in dense hardsphere suspensions. Phys. Rev. E 80, 061403 (2009).
11. Wang, Z., Alsayed, A., Yodh, A. & Han, Y. Two-dimensional freezing criteria for crystallizing colloidal monolayers. J. Chem. Phys. 132, 154501 (2010).
12. Edmond, K. V., Nugent, C. R. & Weeks, E. R. Influence of confinement on dynamical heterogeneities in dense colloidal samples. Phys. Rev. E 85, 041401 (2012).
13. Watanabe, K., Kawasaki, T. & Tanaka, H. Structural origin of enhanced slow dynamics near a wall in glass-forming systems. Nat. Mater. 10, 512-520 (2011).
14. Zhou, H.-X., Rivas, G. & Minton, A. P. Macromolecular crowding and confinement: biochemical, biophysical, and potential physiological consequences. Annu. Rev. Biophys. 37, 375-397 (2008).
15. Hamilton, B. D., Ha, J.-M., Hillmyer, M. A. & Ward, M. D. Manipulating Crystal Growth and Polymorphism by Confinement in Nanoscale Crystallization Chambers. Acc. Chem. Res. 45, 414-423 (2012).
16. Chen, C., Cook, O., Nicholson, C. E. & Cooper, S. J. Leapfrogging Ostwald's rule of stages: Crystallization of stable g-glycine directly from microemulsions. Cryst. Growth Des. 11, 2228-2237 (2011).
17. Alba-Simionesco, C. et al. Effects of confinement on freezing and melting. J. Phys. Condens. Matter. 18, R15-R68 (2006).
18. Marcus, A. H. & Rice, S. A. Phase transitions in a confined quasi-twodimensional colloid suspension. Phys. Rev. E. 55, 637-656 (1997).
19. Zahn, K., Lenke, R. & Maret, G. Two-stage melting of paramagnetic colloidal crystals in two dimensions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 2721-2724 (1999).
20. Bernard, E. P. & Krauth, W. Two-step melting in two dimensions: first-order liquid-hexatic transition. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155704 (2011).
21. Liesener, J., Reicherter, M., Haist, T. & Tiziani, H. J. Multi-functional optical tweezers using computer-generated holograms. Opt. Commun. 185, 77-82 (2000).
22. Barker, J. A. & Henderson, D. What is 'liquid'? Understanding the states of matter. Rev. Mod. Phys. 48, 587-671 (1976).
23. Kolafa, J. & Rottner, M. Simulation-based equation of state of the hard disk fluid and prediction of higher-order virial coefficients. Mol. Phys. 104, 3435-3441 (2006).
24. Alder, B. J., Hoover, W. G. & Young, D. A. Studies in molecular dynamics. V. High-Density equation of state and entropy for hard disks and spheres. J. Chem. Phys. 49, 3688-3696 (1968).
25. Hedges, L. O., Jack, R. L., Garrahan, J. P. & Chandler, D. Dynamic orderdisorder in atomistic models of structural glass formers. Science 323, 1309-1313 (2009).
26. Tarazona, P. & Rosenfeld, Y. From zero-dimension cavities to free-energy functionals for hard disks and hard spheres. Phys. Rev. E 55, R4873-R4876 (1997).
27. Palacci, J., Sacanna, S., Steinberg, A. P., Pine, D. J. & Chaikin, P. M. Living crystals of light-activated colloidal surfers. Science 339, 936-940 (2013).
28. Elcock, A. H. Models of macromolecular crowding effects and the need for quantitative comparisons with experiment. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 20, 196-206 (2010).
29. Preece, D. et al. Increasing trap stiffness with position clamping in holographic optical tweezers. Opt. Express 17, 22718-22725 (2009).
30. Crocker, J. C. & Grier, D. G. Methods of digital video microscopy for colloidal studies. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 179, 298-310 (1996).
31. Poon, W. C. K., Weeks, E. R. & Royall, C. P. On measuring coloidal volume fractions. Soft Matter 8, 21-30 (2012).
32. Royall, C. P., Poon, W. C. K. & Weeks, E. R. In search of colloidal hard spheres. Soft Matter 9, 17-27 (2013).