Z. Adamczyk et al., FLOW-INDUCED SURFACE BLOCKING EFFECTS IN ADSORPTION OF COLLOID PARTICLES, Journal of colloid and interface science, 174(1), 1995, pp. 130-141
Localized, irreversible adsorption of interacting colloid particles fr
om well-defined hows was studied experimentally and theoretically. The
impinging-jet cells were used for creating the axisymmetric and plane
-parallel (slot) laminar flows, enabling a direct microscope determina
tion of particle adsorption kinetics. Monodisperse suspension of polys
tyrene latex particles was used for measuring the influence of how int
ensity (shear rate) on particle adsorption kinetics. The experimental
data were interpreted in terms of the approximate analytical predictio
ns derived using the random sequential adsorption (RSA) approach valid
for low and moderate surface concentrations. For an arbitrary range o
f surface concentrations the general sequential Brownian dynamics (SBD
) simulation method was used to interpret the experimental data. It wa
s found that these theoretical methods reflected well the characterist
ic features of the adsorption experiments, especially the significant
decrease of adsorption kinetics for higher how shear rates and low ion
ic strengths caused by the hydrodynamic scattering effect (HSE). Due t
o this effect, the surface-blocking phenomena for spherical particles
become analogous to elongated non-spherical particles under no-how ads
orption conditions. (C) 1995 Academic Press, Inc.