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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 52: Glasses and Glass transition (joint session DY/ DF/ CPP)

DY 52.1: Talk

Thursday, March 19, 2015, 15:00–15:15, BH-N 128

Binary colloidal mixtures investigated by differential dynamic microscopy — •Tatjana Sentjabrskaja, Marco Laurati, and Stefan U. Egelhaaf — Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Heinrich-Heine University, D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany

We investigate dynamics of colloids in binary mixtures of hard spheres with large size asymmetry, using confocal differential dynamic microscopy (con-DDM). This technique allows to study wave vector dependent dynamics of particles by analysing time series of confocal microscopy images. Analysis of the Fourier spectra of image differences acquired at different delay times allows to determine the time-dependent density-density correlation functions and, from its shape and decay time, the nature and characteristic times of particles' dynamics. To benchmark con-DDM, we investigate one-component systems of colloidal particles at different volume fractions. Diffusion coefficients of particles as a function of volume fraction obtained from con-DDM measurements are found to be in good agreement with those obtained using dynamic light scattering experiments. We additionally show that con-DDM can be used to separately study the dynamics of single species in multicomponent systems using fluorescent labeling. In particular, we are able to determine the dynamics of sub-resolution tracer particles in binary colloidal mixtures with large size asymmetry, as a function of increasing volume fraction of the large particles. The motion of the tracer, small particles becomes increasingly constrained by the dense matrix of large spheres, resulting in complex, non-diffusive motion of the tracers.