Out of equilibrium ion distribution around a suspended particle undergoing electrophoretic motion

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Volume 467, 2015, Pages 207–210.

Constantino Grosse1, 2

1 Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Avenida Independencia 1800, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.

2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Avenida Rivadavia 1917, 1033 Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Abstract

It is shown that the often used representations of the ionic atmosphere surrounding a charged spherical particle suspended in an electrolyte solution and moving with electrophoretic velocity under the action of an applied electric field are misleading at best. Numerical results for the actual out of equilibrium counterion, co-ion, total ion, and total charge density distributions are presented.

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Figure Legend:  Density of counterions around a charged colloidal particle in a DC electric field. The electrophoretic velocity points towards the left.

Credit: Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Volume 467, 2015, Pages 207–210.

Out of equilibrium ion distribution around a suspended particle undergoing electrophoretic motion

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