Electro-Orientation and Electro-Rotation of Metallodielectric Janus Particles

Daniel Sofer, Gilad Yossifon*, Touvia Miloh

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Abstract

The electro-rotation (EROT) and electro-orientation (EOR) behavior of metallodielectric spherical Janus particles (JP) are studied analytically and verified experimentally. This stands in contrast to previous either heuristic or numerically computed models of JP dipoles. First, we obtain frequency-dependent analytic expressions for the corresponding dipole terms for a JP composed of dielectric and metallic hemispheres by applying the “standard” (weak-field) electrokinetic model and using a Fourier-Legendre collocation method for solving two sets of linear equations. EROT and EOR spectra, describing the variation of the JP’s angular velocity on the forcing frequency of a rotating and nonrotating spatially uniform electric field, respectively, are explicitly determined and compared against experiments (different JP sizes and solution conductivities). While a favorably good agreement between theory and experimental measurements was found for the frequency response (∼8% difference), there is still a factor of ∼2 difference in the amplitude of the angular velocity, which necessitates further future improvements to the model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)790-799
Number of pages10
JournalLangmuir
Volume39
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Jan 2023

Funding

FundersFunder number
MNFU
Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute
Technion RBNI
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation2018168

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