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In this paper we report measurements of the form factor and the structure factor of a sterically stabilized colloidal dispersion consisting of silica spheres coated with octadecane in toluene by small angle neutron scattering (SANS). The phase diagram of this system shows the liquid-liquid coexistence line and also a jamming transition at higher concentrations, where the jamming line intersects the coexistence line roughly at the critical point. We have performed SANS experiments at a temperature well above the transition temperature and at various volume fractions phi, spanning from the very dilute regime (phi=0.2%) to the critical concentration (phi=16%) and the highly viscous regime (phi=39.2%). Except for the very dilute regime, we observe a structure factor S(q) in all other cases. We fitted our data over the whole concentration regime using a global fitting routine with a core-shell model for the form factor P(q), taking into account the structure factor, which we describe with the Robertus model for an adhesive polydisperse core-shell particle. At a volume fraction of phi=5% a SANS contrast variation experiment has been performed. From that the product of the volume of the shell and the amount of solvent within the corona of our core-shell particle could be determined. At the most probable shell thickness of 2.3 nm a solvent content of about 50% within the corona was found. Moreover we could conclude that the core is not interpenetrated by solvent molecules. From the contrast variation experiment followed that the structure factor at zero average contrast exhibits a strong q dependence, which is an effect of an inhomogeneous particle in combination with a size distribution.

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Colloidal dispersions of octadecyl grafted silica spheres in toluene: A global analysis of small angle neutron scattering contrast variation and concentration dependence measurements