Chemistry: electrical and wave energy – Apparatus – Electrophoretic or electro-osmotic apparatus
Patent
1999-01-04
2000-03-07
Mayekar, Kishor
Chemistry: electrical and wave energy
Apparatus
Electrophoretic or electro-osmotic apparatus
204492, C25D 1500
Patent
active
060335475
ABSTRACT:
A method apparatus is provided for electrophoretically depositing particles onto an electrode, and electrohydrodynamically assembling the particles into crystalline structures. Specifically, the present method and apparatus creates a current flowing through a solution to cause identically charged electrophoretically deposited colloidal particles to attract each other over very large distances (<5 particle diameters) on the surface of electrodes to form two-dimensional colloidal crystals. The attractive force can be created with both DC and AC fields and can modulated by adjusting either the field strength or frequency of the current. Modulating this "lateral attraction" between the particles causes the reversible formation of two-dimensional fluid and crystalline colloidal states on the electrode surface. Further manipulation allows for the formation of two or three-dimensional colloidal crystals, as well as more complex "designed" structures. Once the required structures are formed, these three-dimension colloidal crystals can be permanently "frozen" or "glued" by controlled coagulation induced by to the applied field to form a stable crystalline structure.
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Aksay Ilhan A.
Saville Dudley A.
Trau Mathias
Mayekar Kishor
The Trustees of Princeton University
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