Short-time dynamics and high-frequency rheology of suspensions of spherical core–shell particles with thin-shells

Abstract

Short-time dynamics and high-frequency rheology for suspensions of non-overlapping core–shell particles with thin shells were analyzed. In the thin-shell limit, the single-particle scattering coefficients were derived and shown to define a unique effective radius. This result was used to justify theoretically (in the thin-shell limit) the accuracy of the annulus approximation with the inner radius equal to the effective hydrodynamic radius of the core–shell particle. The two-particle virial expansion of the translational and rotational self-diffusion, sedimentation and viscosity was performed. The virial coefficients were evaluated and shown to be accurately approximated by the effective annulus model, in contrast to the imprecise effective hard sphere model.