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In the presented work, we consider a system of hard spheres of the same size but different mobilities (molecules with high mobility correspond to solvent molecules, while molecules with reduced mobility are colloid particles) at varying concentrations. For this purpose, a two-dimensional lattice and an thermal model of such systems was designed. In order to determine the properties of such systems, a Monte Carlo computer simulation was used, employing the Dynamic Lattice Liquid (DLL) algorithm. Our main aim was to determine how the dynamic behavior of the system in the short time affects the long-time behavior. For this purpose, we investigated the cross-ratios of the diffusion coefficients in the short and long time of the considered system elements. It was found that the reduction in the solvent mobility with increasing concentration of colloidal particles in a short time leads to a very similar reduction in the mobility of the colloid particles in a long time, but we do not observe such behavior in the case of the solvent, i.e., there is a decrease in the value of the solvent diffusion coefficient in the long time with the change in the concentration of colloid particles, but it is difficult to connect it in a simple way with the decrease in the diffusion coefficient in the short time.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e27111091","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,23]],"date-time":"2025-10-23T01:14:02Z","timestamp":1761182042000},"page":"1091","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Self-Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Systems: A Computer Simulation Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Piotr","family":"Polanowski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Zeromskiego 116, 90-543 Lodz, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4232-6995","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrzej","family":"Sikorski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"626","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1130146","article-title":"Brownian motion of an ellipsoid","volume":"314","author":"Han","year":"2006","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"17891","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1203328109","article-title":"Decoupling of rotational and translational diffusion in supercooled colloidal fluids","volume":"109","author":"Edmond","year":"2012","journal-title":"Proc. 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