Diffusioosmosis and electroosmosis in a capillary slit with surface charge layers
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Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 212 (1): 27-42
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Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
Journal Volume
212
Journal Issue
1
Pages
27-42
Date Issued
2003
Date
2003
Author(s)
Wu, Jan H.
Abstract
This study analytically examines the steady diffusioosmotic and electroosmotic flows of an electrolyte solution in a fine capillary slit with each of its inside walls covered by a layer of adsorbed polyelectrolytes. In this solvent-permeable and ion-penetrable surface charge layer, idealized polyelectrolyte segments are assumed to distribute at a uniform density. The electric double layer and the surface charge layer may have arbitrary thicknesses relative to the gap width between the slit walls. The electrostatic potential distribution on a cross section of the slit is obtained by solving the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation, which applies to the case of low potentials or low fixed-charge densities. Explicit formulas for the fluid velocity profile due to the imposed electrolyte concentration gradient or electric field through the slit are derived as the solution of a modified Navier-Stokes/Brinkman equation. The results demonstrate that the structure of the surface charge layer can lead to an augmented or a diminished electrokinetic flow (even a reversal in direction of the flow) relative to that in a capillary with bare walls, depending on the characteristics of the capillary, of the surface charge layer, and of the electrolyte solution. For the diffusioosmotic flow with an induced electric field, competition between electroosmosis and chemiosmosis can result in more than one reversal in direction of the flow over a range of the Donnan potential of the adsorbed polyelectrolyte in the capillary. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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