Abstract
We use x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) to probe the dynamics of colloidal particles in polycrystalline ice. During freezing, the dendritic ice morphology and rejection of particles from the ice created regions of high particle density, where some of the colloids were forced into contact and formed disordered aggregates. The particles in these high density regions underwent ballistic motion, with a characteristic velocity that increased with temperature. This ballistic motion is coupled with both stretched and compressed exponential decays of the intensity autocorrelation function. We suggest that this behavior could result from ice grain boundary migration. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 224706 |
| Journal | The Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 135 |
| Issue number | 22 |
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| State | Published - Dec 13 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUK-C1-013-04
Acknowledgements: We thank S. Narayanan, A. Sandy, and M. Sprung for assistance with the XPCS experiments, and X. Lu, J. Neufeld, E. Thomson, and L. Wilen for useful discussions. M.S. acknowledges the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for support. S.G.J.M. thanks the NSF for support via DMR-0906697. S.S.L.P. acknowledges support from KAUST Award KUK-C1-013-04. J.S.W. acknowledges support from NSF Grant OPP0440841, the US DoE Grant DE-FG02-05ER15741, and the Wenner-Gren and John Simon Guggenheim Foundations. Use of the Advanced Photon Source was supported by the US DoE under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.