Abstract
To understand the shielding of electrokinetics of colloidal particles by polymer coating, we measured the electrophoretic mobility of negatively charged polystyrene sulfate latex (PSL) adsorbed with electrostatically neutral polyethylene oxide (PEO) chains with various molecular weights under different ionic strengths. We confirmed that substantial adsorbed neutral polymer on the particle surface would decrease the absolute value of electrophoretic mobility. Even though the polymer layer is sufficiently thicker compared to the thickness of electric double layer (EDL), the electrophoretic mobility (EPM) never vanishes, which indicates the incompleteness of electrokinetic shielding by an adsorbed neutral polymer. To relate such interesting phenomena, a simple mathematical model has been proposed to evaluate the electrophoretic mobility, assuming the presence of a scaling structure of adsorbed permeable polymer layer does not influence the Poisson–Boltzmann distribution of ions in the electric double layer (EDL). An analytical expression of electrophoretic mobility under Debye-Hu¨ckel approximation has been derived using the method of Ohshima-Kondo theory, which successfully justifies the experimentally obtained data.
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