Frequency domain photon migration measurements of dense monodisperse charged lattices and analysis using solutions of Ornstein Zernike equations

Isotropic scattering coefficient measurements were made of monodisperse polystyrene lattices of two different diameters of 144 nm and 223 nm and at volume fractions ranging from 0.15 to 0.22, using frequency domain photon migration measurements at wavelengths of 660, 685, 785 and 828 nm. The isotropic scattering coefficient measurements were shown to be sensitive to the changing ionic strength (0.5–4 mM, NaCl equiv.) of the dispersions exhibiting hindered scattering owing to structure at the lowest ionic strength values. Monte Carlo simulations and numerical solution of the Ornstein Zernike equations were used to compute isotropic scattering coefficients for comparison to measured values. The interaction potential was modeled as a hard sphere Yukawa potential and the Hypernetted Chain closure was used to solve the OZ equation. Effective particle charges were found after renormalization of the bare particle charge and used to predict the isotropic scattering coefficient. The model data were found to follow similar trends as experimental measurements. The refractive index of the particles has found to be an important factor for predicting experimental isotropic scattering coefficient values.

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► We conduct multi wavelength frequency domain photon migration measurements.
► Monodisperse high volume fraction colloids are studied using the above technique.
► Structure factors are modeled using Ornstein Zernike equations.
► Isotropic scattering coefficients are predicted and compared with experiment.