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软弹性凝胶中粒子的表面折叠诱导的吸引和运动:表面张力、弹性和重力的协同效应

Surface Folding Induced Attraction and Motion of Particles in a Soft Elastic Gel: Cooperative Effects of Surface Tension, Elasticity and Gravity

Aditi Chakrabarti, Manoj K. Chaudhury

摘要:

我们报告,第一次,一些实验观察到的一种新的类型的刚性粒子之间的长程相互作用,普遍存在时,他们被悬浮在一个软弹性凝胶。密度更大的颗粒会在凝胶内部浸入相当深的深度,并通过平衡其重量与周围介质施加的弹力而变得有浮力。由于大的弹性毛细管长度,凝胶的表面包裹颗粒并闭合以产生将颗粒连接到凝胶的自由表面的线奇点。因此,在平行于自由表面的凝胶网络中产生大量的拉伸应变,其渗透到凝胶内部的显著深度。这种拉伸应变的场是相当长的范围,由于一个大的相关长度和强大到足以拉动两个淹没的粒子接触。粒子以有效力朝向彼此移动,遵循线性距离反比定律。当更多的单体或二聚体的颗粒被释放到凝胶内部时,它们在胶囊内部自由取向,并相互吸引形成紧密堆积的簇。最终,这些星系团相互作用并合并。这是一种突现现象,其中重力、毛细作用和弹性协同工作以产生长距离相互作用。我们还提出了一个相关的实验结果,其中一个颗粒悬浮在一个厚度梯度凝胶移动伴随着连续折叠和松弛的凝胶表面。

英文摘要:

We report, for the first time, some experimental observations regarding a new type of long range interaction between rigid particles that prevails when they are suspended in an soft elastic gel. A denser particle submerges itself to a considerable depth inside the gel and becomes buoyant by balancing its weight against the elastic force exerted by the surrounding medium. By virtue of a large elastic-capillary length, the surface of the gel wraps around the particle and closes to create a line singularity connecting the particle to the free surface of the gel. Substantial amount of tensile strain is thus developed in the gel network parallel to the free surface that penetrates to a significant depth inside the gel. The field of this tensile strain is rather long range owing to a large correlation length and strong enough to pull two submerged particles into contact. The particles move towards each other with an effective force following an inverse linear distance law. When more monomers or dimers of the particles are released inside the gel, they orient rather freely inside the capsules they are in, and attract each other to form close packed clusters. Eventually, these clusters themselves interact and coalesce. This is an emergent phenomenon in which the gravity, the capillarity and the elasticity work in tandem to create a long range interaction. We also present the results of a related experiment, in which a particle suspended inside a thickness graded gel moves accompanied by the continuous folding and the relaxation of the surface of the gel.

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