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Evaporation of water drops on polymer surfaces: Pinning, depinning and dynamics of the triple line. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2013.04.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Influence of evaporation rate on cracks’ formation of a drying drop of whole blood. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2013.04.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Morales VL, Parlange JY, Wu M, Pérez-Reche FJ, Zhang W, Sang W, Steenhuis TS. Surfactant-mediated control of colloid pattern assembly and attachment strength in evaporating droplets. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:1831-1840. [PMID: 23327491 DOI: 10.1021/la304685b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This study demonstrates that the pattern assembly and attachment strength of colloids in an evaporating sessile droplet resting on a smooth substrate can be controlled by adding nonionic solutes (surfactant) to the solution. As expected, increasing the surfactant concentration leads to a decrease in initial surface tension of the drop, σ(0). For the range of initial surface tensions investigated (39-72 mN m(-1)), three distinct deposition patterns were produced: amorphous stains (σ(0) = 63-72 mN m(-1)), coffee-ring stains (σ(0) = 48-53 mN m(-1)), and concentric rings (σ(0) = 39-45 mN m(-1)). A flow-displacement system was used to measure the attachment strength of the dried colloids. Characteristic drying regimes associated with the three unique pattern formations are attributed to abrupt transitions of contact line dynamics during evaporation. The first transition from slipping- to pinned-contact line was found to be a direct result of the competition between mechanical instability of the droplet and the friction generated by pinned colloids at the contact line. The second transition from pinned- to recurrent-stick-rip-slip-contact line was caused by repeated liquid film rupturing from evaporation-intensified surfactant concentration. Data from flow-displacement tests indicate that attachment strength of dried particles is strongest for amorphous stains (lowest surfactant concentration) and weakest for concentric rings (highest surfactant concentration). The mechanism behind these observations was ascribed to the formation and adsorption of micelles onto colloid and substrate surfaces as the droplet solution evaporates. The range of attachment forces observed between the colloids and the solid substrate were well captured by extended-DLVO interactions accounting for van der Waals attraction, electric double layer repulsion, and micelle-protrusion repulsion. Both empirical and theoretical results suggest that an increasingly dense layer of adsorbed micellar-protrusions on colloid and substrate surfaces acts as a physical barrier that hinders strong van der Waals attractive interactions at close proximity. Thereby, colloid stains dried at higher surfactant concentrations are more easily detached from the substrate when dislodging forces are applied than stains dried at lower surfactant concentrations.
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- Verónica L Morales
- SIMBIOS Centre, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee DD1 1HG, United Kingdom
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Askounis A, Sefiane K, Koutsos V, Shanahan MER. Structural transitions in a ring stain created at the contact line of evaporating nanosuspension sessile drops. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 87:012301. [PMID: 23410325 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.012301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2012] [Revised: 11/08/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Monodisperse nanosuspension droplets, placed on a flat surface, evaporated following the stick-slip motion of the three-phase contact line. Unexpectedly, a disordered region formed at the exterior edge of a closely packed nanocolloidal crystalline structure during the "stick" period. In order to assess the role of particle velocity on particle structuring, we did experiments in a reduced pressure environment which allowed the enhancement of particle velocity. These experiments revealed the promotion of hexagonal packing at the very edge of the crystallite with increasing velocity. Quantification of particle velocity and comparison with measured deposit shape for each case allowed us to provide a tentative description of the underlying mechanisms that govern particle deposition of nanoparticles at the triple line of an evaporating droplet. Behavior is governed by an interplay between the fluid, and hence particle, flow velocity (main ordering parameter) and wedge constraints, and consequently disjoining pressure (main disordering parameter). Furthermore, the formation of a second disordered particle region at the interior edge of the deposit (towards bulk fluid) was found and attributed to the rapid motion of the triple line during the "slip" regime. Additionally, the magnitude of the pinning forces acting on the triple line of the same drops was calculated. These findings provide further insight into the mechanisms of the phenomenon and could facilitate its exploitation in various nanotechnological applications.
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- Alexandros Askounis
- Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, United Kingdom
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Farcau C, Sangeetha NM, Decorde N, Astilean S, Ressier L. Microarrays of gold nanoparticle clusters fabricated by Stop&Go convective self-assembly for SERS-based sensor chips. NANOSCALE 2012; 4:7870-7877. [PMID: 23149550 DOI: 10.1039/c2nr32781c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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SERS substrates fabricated from chemically synthesized nanoparticles (NPs) offer a distinct advantage of localizing and enhancing the electromagnetic fields by facile tuning of NP size, shape and interparticle distances. In this report, two-dimensional arrays of micrometre-sized clusters of gold nanoparticles protected by (i) sodium citrate and (ii) tris(2,4-dimethyl-5-sulfonatophenyl)phosphine (TDSP) ligands were directly assembled from colloidal suspensions onto flat, non-patterned substrates by discontinuous ('Stop&Go') convective self-assembly. The micrometric spacing between the NP clusters makes it easy to address them individually by confocal Raman microscopy. The packing of the gold NPs within these clusters with interparticle spacings of the order of nanometres leads to an optical response dominated by coupled surface plasmon resonances, and favours a strong enhancement of electromagnetic fields useful for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). These NP clusters make very uniform SERS substrates, with reproducible SERS responses from cluster to cluster. The potential of these NP clusters for optical biosensing is demonstrated by the SERS detection of a biologically relevant molecule, cytosine, adsorbed onto the NP clusters. The presented results are promising for designing an original class of nanoparticle-based SERS microarrays. The new paradigm of convective self-assembly could be exploited generally for the patterning of various other types of colloidal micro- and nano-objects, such as semiconducting NPs, magnetic NPs, bacteria or proteins.
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- Cosmin Farcau
- Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Bio-Nano-Sciences, 1 M. Kogalniceanu, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Bi W, Wu X, Yeow EKL. Unconventional multiple ring structure formation from evaporation-induced self-assembly of polymers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:11056-11063. [PMID: 22747256 DOI: 10.1021/la300697w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The formation of multiring deposits of poly(2-vinylpyridine) (P2VP) from the evaporation of a P2VP-(2,6-lutidine + water) drop on a glass substrate does not conform to the conventional pinning-depinning mechanism. Instead, ringlike deposits are formed when the droplet undergoes several cycles of spreading and receding where, for each spreading event, a P2VP ridge is formed at the contact line when the polymer flows toward the outward advancing edge. The complex interplay between an outward solutal-Marangoni flow due to a higher concentration of the polymer at the contact line and an inward solvent-Marangoni flow arising from the differences in volatilities and surface tensions of the pure solvent components plays an important role in enhancing the droplet spreading rate. The newly discovered surface patterning mechanism has important implications in the development of novel techniques for inducing self-assembly of functional materials from evaporating drops.
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- Wuguo Bi
- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore
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Uchiyama H, Mantani Y, Kozuka H. Spontaneous formation of linearly arranged microcraters on sol-gel-derived silica-poly(vinylpyrrolidone) hybrid films induced by Bénard-Marangoni convection. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:10177-10182. [PMID: 22746830 DOI: 10.1021/la3020332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Complex, sophisticated surface patterns on micrometer and nanometer scales are obtained when solvent evaporates from solutions containing nonvolatile solutes dropped on a solid substrate. Such evaporation-driven pattern formation has been utilized as a fabrication process of highly ordered patterns in thin films. Here, we suggested the spontaneous pattern formation induced by Bénard-Marangoni convection triggered by solvent evaporation as a novel patterning process of sol-gel-derived organic-inorganic hybrid films. Microcraters of 1.0-1.5 μm in height and of 100-200 μm in width were spontaneously formed on the surface of silica-poly(vinylpyrrolidone) hybrid films prepared via temperature-controlled dip-coating process, where the surface patterns were linearly arranged parallel to the substrate withdrawal direction. Such highly ordered micropatterns were achieved by Bénard-Marangoni convection activated at high temperatures and the unidirectional flow of the coating solution on the substrate during dip-coating.
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- Hiroaki Uchiyama
- Department of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Kansai University, Yamate-cho, Suita, Japan.
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Dufour R, Brunet P, Harnois M, Boukherroub R, Thomy V, Senez V. Zipping effect on omniphobic surfaces for controlled deposition of minute amounts of fluid or colloids. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2012; 8:1229-1236. [PMID: 22337592 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201101895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2011] [Revised: 11/15/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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When a drop sits on a highly liquid-repellent surface (super-hydrophobic or super-omniphobic) made of periodic micrometer-sized posts, its contact-line can recede with very weak mechanical retention providing that the liquid stays on top of the microsized posts. Occurring in both sliding and evaporation processes, the achievement of low-contact-angle hysteresis (low retention) is required for discrete microfluidic applications involving liquid motion or self-cleaning; however, careful examination shows that during receding, a minute amount of liquid is left on top of the posts lying at the receding edge of the drop. For the first time, the heterogeneities of these deposits along the drop-receding contact-line are underlined. Both nonvolatile liquid and particle-laden water are used to quantitatively characterize what rules the volume distribution of deposited liquid. The experiments suggest that the dynamics of the liquid de-pinning cascade is likely to select the volume left on a specific post, involving the pinch-off and detachment of a liquid bridge. In an applied prospective, this phenomenon dismisses such surfaces for self-cleaning purposes, but offers an original way to deposit controlled amounts of liquid and (bio)-particles at well-targeted locations.
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- Renaud Dufour
- University Lille Nord de France, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, UMR CNRS 8520, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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Choi S, Jamshidi A, Seok TJ, Wu MC, Zohdi TI, Pisano AP. Fast, high-throughput creation of size-tunable micro/nanoparticle clusters via evaporative self-assembly in picoliter-scale droplets of particle suspension. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:3102-3111. [PMID: 22260193 DOI: 10.1021/la204362s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report a fast, high-throughput method to create size-tunable micro/nanoparticle clusters via evaporative assembly in picoliter-scale droplets of particle suspension. Mediated by gravity force and surface tension force of a contacting surface, picoliter-scale droplets of the suspension are generated from a nanofabricated printing head. Rapid evaporative self-assembly of the particles on a hydrophobic surface leads to fast clustering of micro/nanoparticles and forms particle clusters of tunable sizes and controlled spacing. The evaporating behavior of the droplet is observed in real-time, and the clustering characteristics of the particles are understood based on the physics of evaporative-assembly. With this method, multiplex printing of various particle clusters with accurate positioning and alignment are demonstrated. Also, size-unifomity of the cluster arrays is thoroughly analyzed by examining the metallic nanoparticle cluster-arrays based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
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- Sun Choi
- Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
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Das S, Waghmare PR, Fan M, Gunda NSK, Roy SS, Mitra SK. Dynamics of liquid droplets in an evaporating drop: liquid droplet “coffee stain” effect. RSC Adv 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ra20743e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Robbins MJ, Archer AJ, Thiele U. Modelling the evaporation of thin films of colloidal suspensions using dynamical density functional theory. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2011; 23:415102. [PMID: 21952487 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/41/415102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Recent experiments have shown that various structures may be formed during the evaporative dewetting of thin films of colloidal suspensions. Nanoparticle deposits of strongly branched 'flower-like', labyrinthine and network structures are observed. They are caused by the different transport processes and the rich phase behaviour of the system. We develop a model for the system, based on a dynamical density functional theory, which reproduces these structures. The model is employed to determine the influences of the solvent evaporation and of the diffusion of the colloidal particles and of the liquid over the surface. Finally, we investigate the conditions needed for 'liquid-particle' phase separation to occur and discuss its effect on the self-organized nanostructures.
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- M J Robbins
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
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Monteux C, Lequeux F. Packing and sorting colloids at the contact line of a drying drop. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2011; 27:2917-2922. [PMID: 21294553 DOI: 10.1021/la104055j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In this article, we study the drying kinetics of a sessile droplet containing latex particles. We find that a depletion film is left at the edge of the drops, whose width is controlled by two geometric parameters, the contact angle and the diameter of the particles. We show that this effect can be used to sort colloidal mixtures because nanometric colloids always segregate at the edge of the drop, whereas micrometric colloids are blocked further away from the edge. We also provide a simple method to measure the velocity of a micrometric latex as it flows toward the contact line. We find that the particles strongly accelerate at the end of the drying process. Using Deegan's prediction for the rate of evaporation in the vicinity of the contact line, we quantitatively explain this phenomenon by the fact that the contact angle vanishes at the end of the drying process, therefore inducing a strong increase in the flux of water and particles close to the edge. The decrease in the contact angle also controls the width of the ringlike deposit.
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- Cécile Monteux
- PPMD/SIMM, UMR 7615 CNRS-ESPCI-Université Pierre et Marie Curie, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
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Frastia L, Archer AJ, Thiele U. Dynamical model for the formation of patterned deposits at receding contact lines. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 106:077801. [PMID: 21405542 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.077801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We describe the formation of deposition patterns that are observed in many different experiments where a three-phase contact line of a volatile nanoparticle suspension or polymer solution recedes. A dynamical model based on a long-wave approximation predicts the deposition of irregular and regular line patterns due to self-organized pinning-depinning cycles corresponding to a stick-slip motion of the contact line. We analyze how the line pattern properties depend on the evaporation rate and solute concentration.
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- Lubor Frastia
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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Doumenc F, Guerrier B. Drying of a solution in a meniscus: a model coupling the liquid and the gas phases. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2010; 26:13959-13967. [PMID: 20712350 DOI: 10.1021/la1018373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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A model simulating the drying of a solution in a meniscus in contact with a moving substrate is developed. It takes into account the hydrodynamics in the solution in the framework of the lubrication approximation, the vapor diffusion in the gas phase, and the variation of physical properties during drying. The free surface profile and spatial evaporation flux are not imposed a priori but result from the simulation of the mass transfer in the liquid/gas system (1.5-sided model). Several regimes are observed depending on the substrate velocity. For a large substrate velocity, the classical Landau-Levich regime is obtained. For smaller velocities, a drying front appears that is characterized by a strong concentration gradient and a peak in the evaporation flux. The coupling between the evaporation flux and the meniscus shape in this regime is analyzed. Another regime appears at a very low substrate velocity and seems to be driven by a competition between advection and diffusion. This macroscopic model simulates recent experimental results, namely, the dependence of the deposit thickness on the substrate velocity, which scales as 1/V in the regime dominated by evaporation.
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- F Doumenc
- UPMC Université Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire FAST, Campus Universitaire, Orsay F-91405, France.
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