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Xu Y, He Y, Wu F, Zhou X, Liu M. Formation and Application of Polymer Spherulite-like Patterns of Halloysite Nanotubes by Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024. [PMID: 38471076 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c18917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are one-dimensional clay nanomaterials featuring distinct tubular structures and unique surface charges. HNTs can readily form ordered assembly structures under specific conditions, which shows significant potential applications in optical and biological fields. In this study, sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP) was employed as a stabilizer to prepare polymer spherulite-like patterns via the evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) technique. The incorporation of SHMP enhanced the repulsion force among the nanotubes and the surface potential, which facilitated the orderly deposition of HNTs. The influence of HNT concentration, SHMP concentration, drying temperature, and substrate on the polymer spherulites-like pattern has been investigated in detail. The optimal conditions were 10 wt % HNT dispersion, 0.6 wt % SHMP concentration, 30 °C as drying temperature, and glass substrates. In addition, by changing the droplet volume and shape of the three-phase contact line, patterns of different sizes and shapes can be achieved. Bovine serum albumin or metal salt compounds were incorporated into the dispersion of SHMP-modified HNTs, which altered the charge and the self-assembled patterns with different area ratios. Thus, this technology can be utilized for the analysis and comparison of protein and metal ion concentration accurately. This study creates the correlation between the structural parameters and the preparation process involved in creating polymer spherulite-like patterns of modified HNTs and offers fresh insights into potential applications for the self-assembly of HNT droplets in the realms of anticounterfeiting and solution concentration analysis.
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- Yuqian Xu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, PR of China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, PR of China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, PR of China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, PR of China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, PR of China
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Li W, Chen S, Xie S, Lu X, Li Z, Lv Y, Luo D. A light-sensitive protein-based wearable pH biometer. J Mater Chem B 2024; 12:1208-1216. [PMID: 38229580 DOI: 10.1039/d3tb02466k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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Bacteriorhodopsin is a biological material with excellent photosensitivity properties. It can directly convert optical signals into electrical signals and is widely used in various biosensors. Here, we present a bR-based wearable pH biometer that can be used to monitor wound infection. The mechanism of the pH-sensitive effect of the bR electrode is explained, which generates a transient photovoltage under light irradiation and a negative photovoltage when the lamp is turned off. Since the photoelectric signal of bR is affected by different pH values, the photovoltage is changed by adjusting the pH value. The ratio (Vn/Vp) of negative photovoltage (Vn) to positive photovoltage (Vp) has a good linear relationship (R2 = 0.9911) in the pH range of 4.0-10.0. In vitro experiments using rats as a model confirmed that this wearable pH biometer can monitor pH changes that occur in wound infection.
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- Wenxue Li
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China
- Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101400, China.
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- Shanghai Pinghe School, Shanghai, 201203, China
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- Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101400, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China
- Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101400, China.
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- Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101400, China.
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- Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101400, China.
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- Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101400, China.
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Harper M, Nudurupati U, Workman RJ, Lakoba TI, Perez N, Nelson D, Ou Y, Punihaole D. Toward determining amyloid fibril structures using experimental constraints from Raman spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:225101. [PMID: 38078532 PMCID: PMC10720587 DOI: 10.1063/5.0177437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023] Open
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We present structural models for three different amyloid fibril polymorphs prepared from amylin20-29 (sequence SNNFGAILSS) and amyloid-β25-35 (Aβ25-35) (sequence GSNKGAIIGLM) peptides. These models are based on the amide C=O bond and Ramachandran ψ-dihedral angle data from Raman spectroscopy, which were used as structural constraints to guide molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The resulting structural models indicate that the basic structural motif of amylin20-29 and Aβ25-35 fibrils is extended β-strands. Our data indicate that amylin20-29 forms both antiparallel and parallel β-sheet fibril polymorphs, while Aβ25-35 forms a parallel β-sheet fibril structure. Overall, our work lays the foundation for using Raman spectroscopy in conjunction with MD simulations to determine detailed molecular-level structural models of amyloid fibrils in a manner that complements gold-standard techniques, such as solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and cryogenic electron microscopy.
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- Madeline Harper
- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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Ghosh S, Roy A. Optical Anisotropy and Dimple Formation on Films Formed after Drying of Gelatinized Starch Solution Droplets. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:19994-20003. [PMID: 37305248 PMCID: PMC10249113 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c02164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We study the microstructures in the drying droplets of gelatinized starch solutions on a flat substrate. Cryogenic scanning electron microscopy studies on the vertical cross-section of these drying droplets for the first time reveal a relatively thinner solid elastic crust of uniform thickness at the free surface, an intermediate mesh region below the crust, and an inner core of a cellular network structure made of starch nanoparticles. We find that the deposited circular films formed after drying are birefringent and azimuthally symmetric with a dimple at their center. We propose that the dimple formation in our sample occurs due to the evaporation-induced stress on the gel network structure in the drying droplet. The polarizing optical microscopic studies show that these films are optically uniaxial at their center and increasingly biaxial away from the center.
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Issakhani S, Jadidi O, Farhadi J, Bazargan V. Geometrically-controlled evaporation-driven deposition of conductive carbon nanotube patterns on inclined surfaces. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:1393-1406. [PMID: 36723256 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01431a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Controllable accumulation of carbon nanotubes in self-assembly techniques is of critical importance in smart patterning and printed electronics. This study investigates how inclining the substrate and inhibiting the droplet spreading by sharp solid edges can affect the droplet contact angle and pinning time to improve the electrical conductivity and uniformity of the deposited patterns. Rectangular and circular pedestals were employed to investigate the effect of geometry on the deposition characteristics and to incorporate the gravitational effect by varying the substrate inclination angle. The results indicate that confining the droplet contact line to remain pinned to the pedestal edge can significantly alter the width, uniformity, and precision of the deposited patterns. These improvements correspond to the enhancement of the droplet pinning time (due to the edge effect) and to the further increase of the local evaporation rate near the contact line (due to the droplet elevation). By conducting experiments on different rectangular pedestals with varying solid-liquid interfacial areas and comparing their deposition characteristics, a rectangular pedestal with specific dimensions is selected in terms of pattern consistency and material usage efficiency. It is also shown that higher inclination angles further increase the deposited line accumulation density. Combining confinement and inclination techniques yields promising deposited patterns with high consistency and low resistivity, ranging from 8.75 kΩ mm-1 to a minimum of 0.63 kΩ mm-1 for a 3 × 6 mm2 rectangular pedestal.
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- Shervin Issakhani
- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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Inanlu MJ, Farhadi J, Ansari E, Charkas S, Bazargan V. Effect of surfactant concentration on the evaporation-driven deposition of carbon nanotubes: from coffee-ring effect to strain sensing. RSC Adv 2022; 12:31688-31698. [PMID: 36380929 PMCID: PMC9638968 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra03833a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2023] Open
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as electrically conductive materials are of great importance in the fabrication of flexible electronic devices and wearable sensors. In this regard, the evaporation-driven self-assembly of CNTs has attracted increasing attention. CNT-based applications are mostly concerned with the alignment of CNTs and the density of CNT films. In the present work, we focus on the latter by trying to achieve an optimal evaporation-driven deposition with the densest CNT ring. Although surfactants are used for effective dispersion and colloidal stabilization of CNTs in the aqueous phase, their excessive usage induces Marangoni eddies in the evaporating sessile droplets, leading to poor ring depositions. Thus, there is an optimum surfactant concentration that contributes to CNTs deagglomeration and results in the densest ring-like deposition with relatively high thickness. We report that this optimum concentration for sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as a surfactant can be approximately considered as much as the concentration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) as the colloidal nanoparticles. Optimal depositions show the lowest electrical resistances for each CNT concentration, making them suitable for electronic applications. We also propose the multiple depositions method in which a new droplet is printed after the complete evaporation of the previous droplet. This method can lead to denser rings with a higher conductivity using lower concentrations of CNTs. Lastly, we fabricate strain sensors based on the optimal evaporation-driven deposition of CNTs which show higher gauge factors than the commercial strain gauges, corroborating the applicability of our method.
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- Mohammad Jalal Inanlu
- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Tehran Iran
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Tehran Iran
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Tehran Iran
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Tehran Iran
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Tehran Iran
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Zhang J, Yang L, Xu H, Zhou J, Sang Y, Cui Z, Liu C, Liu J, Guo T, Wang X, Wang L, Chen G, Chen X. Dip-Coating Self-Assembly Fabrication and Polarization Sensitive Photoresponse of Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Film. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:490. [PMID: 35062451 PMCID: PMC8779663 DOI: 10.3390/s22020490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Revised: 12/28/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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It is challenging to obtain wafer-scaled aligned films for completely exploiting the promising properties of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs). Aligned s-SWCNTs with a large area can be obtained by combining water evaporation and slow withdrawal-induced self-assembly in a dip-coating process. Moreover, the tunability of deposition morphology parameters such as stripe width and spacing is examined. The polarized Raman results show that s-SWCNTs can be aligned in ±8.6°. The derived two terminal photodetector shows both a high negative responsivity of 41 A/W at 520 nm and high polarization sensitivity. Our results indicate that aligned films with a large area may be useful to electronics- and optoelectronics-related applications.
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- Jiazhen Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- Mathematics and Science College, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200233, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China; (J.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.C.); (C.L.); (J.L.); (T.G.); (X.W.); (L.W.); (X.C.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Liu H, Wang Y, Luo Y, Guo M, Feng Y, Liu M. Tunable coffee-ring formation of halloysite nanotubes by evaporating sessile drops. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:9514-9527. [PMID: 34617549 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01150b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are one-dimensional clay nanomaterials with a length of 200-1000 nm and a diameter of ∼50 nm. Understanding the self-assembly behavior of such unique nanoparticles is important to develop their applications in functional devices. In this study, the "coffee-ring" patterns of HNTs are investigated which are formed by evaporation of the sessile droplets of HNT aqueous dispersion on different substrates. The coffee-ring pattern with various dimensions was characterized using a polarizing microscope (POM), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and a 3D optical profilometer. The diameter, height, and area of the coffee-ring patterns depend on the concentration of HNT dispersion, the droplet volume, and surface wettability. POM and SEM results suggested that the nanotubes were highly ordered in the edge and the middle of the coffee-ring. The coffee-ring effect of HNTs could be suppressed by increasing the evaporation temperature of substrates or adding polymer additives. In addition, multiple-ring patterns consistent with protein rings surrounding HNT rings were formed, which can be utilized to detect the presence of proteins in biological samples. This work illustrated the relationship between the formation of coffee-ring patterns and the experimental conditions, which provided an additional research chance and allowed application development for HNTs using the liquid droplet self-assembly.
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- Hongzhong Liu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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Jannati K, Rahimian MH, Moradi M. Pinning-depinning of the contact line during drop evaporation on textured surfaces: A lattice Boltzmann study. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:033106. [PMID: 33075889 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.033106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The evaporation of the liquid droplet on a structured surface is numerically investigated using the lattice Boltzmann method. Simulations are carried out for different contact angles and pillar widths. From the simulation for the Cassie state, it is found that the evaporation starts in a pinned contact line mode. Then, when the droplet reaches the receding state, the contact line jumps to the neighboring pillar. Also, the depinning force decreases with increasing the contact angle or the pillar width. In the Wenzel state, the droplet contact line remains on the initial pillar for all of its lifetime.
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- Kamal Jannati
- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Bribiesca A, Montoya F, Hernández P, Ramos E, Corkidi G. Device for experimental characterization of the 4D flow inside an evaporating sessile water droplet. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2020; 91:016101. [PMID: 32012599 DOI: 10.1063/1.5126112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We describe an experimental system based on optical microscopy, permitting the analysis of the four dimensional structure of the flow inside evaporating sessile droplets by monitoring the motion of tracers in horizontal planes localized at different heights. Inter-plane particle identification is accomplished via 3D tracking algorithms. The multiple plane observation is achieved using a piezoelectric device to make the microscope objective oscillate vertically, while a high-speed camera captures images. The droplet evaporation process lasts several minutes and greatly accelerates as the fluid advances toward complete evaporation. In order to capture the dynamics of the whole process, two cameras with the same optical output but different temporal resolution are used sequentially. Using image processing algorithms, we obtain the full trajectories of multiple tracers, velocities of particles on the free surface of the droplets, and velocity fields. The information available may be used to understand the geometry of the sedimentation pattern.
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- A Bribiesca
- Computer Vision Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Computer Vision Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Computer Vision Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Renewable Energy Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62580 Temixco, Morelos, Mexico
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- Computer Vision Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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Zhao B, Wang Y, Sinha S, Chen C, Liu D, Dasgupta A, Hu L, Das S. Shape-driven arrest of coffee stain effect drives the fabrication of carbon-nanotube-graphene-oxide inks for printing embedded structures and temperature sensors. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:23402-23415. [PMID: 31793973 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr08450a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Carbon nanotube (CNT) based binder-free, syringe-printable inks, with graphene oxide (GO) being used as the dispersant, have been designed and developed. We discovered that the printability of the ink is directly attributed to the uniform deposition of the GO-CNT agglomerates, as opposed to the 'coffee-staining' despite these aggregates being micron-sized. The ellipsoidal nature of the micron-scale GO-CNT agglomerates/particles enables these particles to severely perturb the air-water interface, triggering a large long-range capillary interaction that causes the uniform deposition by overcoming the "coffee-stain"-forming forces from the evaporation-mediated flows. We evaluated the properties of this ink and identified a temperature-dependent resistance with a negative temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) α ranging from ∼-10-3 to -10-2/°C depending on ink compositions. Finally, the printing is conducted on flat and curved surfaces, for developing polymer-ink embedded structures that might serve as precursors to syringe-printable CNT-based nanocomposites, and for fabricating sensor-like patterns that for certain ink compositions demonstrate α∼-10-3/°C with a large averaged resistance drop (per unit temperature) of -3.5 Ω°C-1.
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- Beihan Zhao
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Goh GL, Agarwala S, Yeong WY. Aerosol-Jet-Printed Preferentially Aligned Carbon Nanotube Twin-Lines for Printed Electronics. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:43719-43730. [PMID: 31660713 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b15060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The alignment of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is of great importance for the fabrication of high-speed electronic devices such as a transistor as the electron mobilities can be greatly enhanced with aligned CNT architectures. Here, we report, for the first time, a methodology to obtain preferentially aligned CNT traces on a flexible polyimide substrate utilizing the high-resolution aerosol jet printing technique and evaporation-driven self-assembly process. A self-assembled twin-line of CNT ("coffee-ring" effect) is observed in the deposit patterns, and the field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) images reveal highly self-ordered CNT in the resulting CNT twin-line. Various aerosol jet parameters have been investigated to obtain printed tracks in the range of 30-80 μm and conductive tracks (single CNT twin-line width) in the range of 600-1500 nm. The smallest CNT twin-line obtained in this experiment is found to be approximately 16 μm using a suitable sheath-to-atomizer flow ratio. Image analysis of FESEM images confirms the formation of aligned CNT traces at the ink periphery. The effect of the line width on the degree of alignment of the CNT is studied and evaluated. The electrical resistance of the CNT trace is adjustable by controlling the number of print passes and print speed.
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- Guo Liang Goh
- Singapore Center for 3D Printing, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798
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- Department of Engineering , Aarhus University , 8200 Aarhus N , Denmark
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- Singapore Center for 3D Printing, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798
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Goh GL, Agarwala S, Yeong WY. Aerosol-Jet-Printed Preferentially Aligned Carbon Nanotube Twin-Lines for Printed Electronics. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019. [PMID: 31660713 DOI: 10.1002/admi.201801318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The alignment of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is of great importance for the fabrication of high-speed electronic devices such as a transistor as the electron mobilities can be greatly enhanced with aligned CNT architectures. Here, we report, for the first time, a methodology to obtain preferentially aligned CNT traces on a flexible polyimide substrate utilizing the high-resolution aerosol jet printing technique and evaporation-driven self-assembly process. A self-assembled twin-line of CNT ("coffee-ring" effect) is observed in the deposit patterns, and the field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) images reveal highly self-ordered CNT in the resulting CNT twin-line. Various aerosol jet parameters have been investigated to obtain printed tracks in the range of 30-80 μm and conductive tracks (single CNT twin-line width) in the range of 600-1500 nm. The smallest CNT twin-line obtained in this experiment is found to be approximately 16 μm using a suitable sheath-to-atomizer flow ratio. Image analysis of FESEM images confirms the formation of aligned CNT traces at the ink periphery. The effect of the line width on the degree of alignment of the CNT is studied and evaluated. The electrical resistance of the CNT trace is adjustable by controlling the number of print passes and print speed.
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- Guo Liang Goh
- Singapore Center for 3D Printing, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798
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- Department of Engineering , Aarhus University , 8200 Aarhus N , Denmark
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- Singapore Center for 3D Printing, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798
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Goh GL, Saengchairat N, Agarwala S, Yeong WY, Tran T. Sessile droplets containing carbon nanotubes: a study of evaporation dynamics and CNT alignment for printed electronics. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:10603-10614. [PMID: 31135018 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr03261d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are 1-dimensional (1D) and flexible nanomaterials with high electric conductivity and a high aspect ratio. These features make CNTs highly suitable materials for the fabrication of flexible electronics. CNTs can also be made into dispersions which can be used as the feedstock material for droplet-based 3D printing technologies, e.g., inkjet printing and aerosol jet printing to fabricate printed electronics. These printing techniques involve several physical processes including deposition of ink droplets on flexible polymeric substrates such as polyimides, evaporation of the solvent and formation of thin films of CNTs, all of which have not been thoroughly investigated. Besides, alignment of the CNTs in the resultant thin films dictates their electrical performance. In this work, we examine the effect of substrate temperature and CNT concentration on the evaporation dynamics and also the alignment in the deposition patterns. Evaporation-driven self-assembly of CNTs and their preferential alignment are observed. Image analysis and Raman spectroscopy are utilised to evaluate the degree of alignment of the CNT network. It is found that the contact line dynamics depends greatly on the CNT concentration. Besides, the substrate temperature plays a significant role in determining the order of the CNTs in the drying deposition pattern. Our findings show the possibility of controlling the film morphology and the degree of alignment of CNTs for printed electronics in the printing process.
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- Guo Liang Goh
- Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore.
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Rahman MR, Waghmare PR. Double-Emulsion Drop Evaporation and Formation of a Daughter Droplet. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:4403-4411. [PMID: 30781955 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this study, we present experimental and theoretical analyses of evaporating a double-emulsion drop resting on a substrate. Multistage evaporation of the outer and inner droplet is witnessed. The complete evaporation of the outer drop and the initialization of the inner drop evaporation demonstrate an interesting transition dynamics. After the apparent completion of evaporation of the inner phase of a double-emulsion drop, surprisingly, formation of a daughter droplet is observed. We further investigated to hypothesize this phenomenon and achieved the formation of the daughter droplet for a single-phase drop as well. While engineering the "daughter drop formation" phenomena, we also proposed a way to obtain prolonged fixed contact line evaporation for a single-phase drop.
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- Muhammad Rizwanur Rahman
- interfacial Science and Surface Engineering Lab ( iSSELab), Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta T6G2G8 , Canada
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- interfacial Science and Surface Engineering Lab ( iSSELab), Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta T6G2G8 , Canada
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Basu N, Mukherjee R. Morphology modulation in evaporative drying mediated crystallization of sodium chloride solution droplet with surfactant. SOFT MATTER 2018; 14:7883-7893. [PMID: 30229795 DOI: 10.1039/c8sm01370e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We report the evaporative drying of an aqueous droplet containing a dilute solution of sodium chloride (NaCl) on a hydrophobic substrate made of cross-linked poly-dimethyl siloxane (PDMS). The salt concentration Cn was varied between 0.08 molar (M) and 2.0 M. The contact line of the evaporating droplets shows significant initial retraction for all Cn, before they get pinned. While the final morphology comprises a few small NaCl crystals deposited around the pinned contact line, in droplets with a low Cn (<0.5 M), it transforms to a single large salt crystal when Cn > 0.7 M with no peripheral deposition. We further show that the deposition morphology drastically changes when an anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), is added into the salt-solutions. Even in the surfactant-laden droplets, the final deposition morphology changes significantly as a function of Cn. It transforms from a thick SDS ring surrounding a fractal-like deposit of NaCl crystallites at lower Cn to a peripheral deposit of NaCl crystals at higher Cn due to competition between micelle formation and crystallization. However, the crystallographic orientation of the deposited NaCl crystals remains unaltered irrespective of the presence of surfactant.
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- Nandita Basu
- Instability and Soft Patterning Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Pin 721 302, West Bengal, India.
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Jiang M, McMillan MF, Davis V, Kitchens CL. Phase Behavior of Acetylated Cellulose Nanocrystals and Origins of the Cross-Hatch Birefringent Texture. Biomacromolecules 2018; 19:3435-3444. [PMID: 29944348 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cellulose nanocrystals hydrolyzed by hydrochloric acid and esterified by acetic acid produce acetylated cellulose nanocrystals (CNC-AA) with acetyl ester surface functional groups. While much attention has been paid to understanding the phase behavior (liquid crystal) of aqueous dispersions of sulfonated nanocrystals, relatively few studies have focused on CNC-AA dispersions. CNC-AA dispersions exhibit multiple phase regimes and markedly different phase behavior due to their lower surface charge. At concentrations above 5.0 × 10-4%vol, a decrease in the apparent diffusion coefficient indicates the onset of interparticle interactions and a transition from the dilute regime. From 0.003 to 0.31%vol, biphasic behavior is observed, consisting of a birefringent lower phase and disordered or isotropic upper phase. Small-angle neutron scattering was used to measure the growth of fractal structures with increasing concentration and indicates a two-dimensional assembly with short-range order in a plate-like assembled geometry. Above 0.31%vol, the dispersion transitions exhibit a cross-hatch birefringent texture, which is believed to exist as a fine-scale nematic that possesses frozen-in flow shear behavior, consistent with a glassy phase. This cross-hatch pattern is maintained in dried films, where atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy reveal a layered sheet-like structure. Imaging also indicates that the basic unit of CNC-AA microstructure in the film consists of 0.5-1.5 μm scale aligned nanorod domains, which agrees with neutron scattering and the dimensions of each individual "hatch" in the birefringent texture observed by cross-polarized microscopy. The assembly of the nanorods into this layered structure and the fine-scale nematic birefringent cross-hatch texture is of significant fundamental interest, particularly since it differs greatly from cellulose nanocrystals with other surface chemistry and offers potential opportunities in other applications owing to the unique assembly.
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- Mingzhe Jiang
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Clemson University , Clemson , South Carolina , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Clemson University , Clemson , South Carolina , United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , Auburn University , Auburn , Alabama , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Clemson University , Clemson , South Carolina , United States
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Yamada Y, Horibe A. Discontinuous contact line motion of evaporating particle-laden droplet on superhydrophobic surfaces. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:043113. [PMID: 29758695 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.043113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The three-phase contact line motion on a superhydrophobic surface through particle-laden sessile droplet evaporation was investigated. Sample surfaces with micro- and nanoscale structures were generated by various durations of chemical treatment and SiO_{2} spherical particles with different sizes were used as additives of test liquid. The contact angle and contact radius profiles were studied, and the discontinuous motion of those profiles on micro- and nanostructured hierarchical surfaces was observed, while it was not observed on a nanostructured superhydrophobic surface. Suspensions with low particle concentration induced a relatively large contact radius jump compared to the high-concentrated condition; in contrast, the previous report showed the opposite trend for flat surfaces. In order to explain this result, a simple explanation was provided-that the stacked particles at the contact line region suppressed to the deformation of the liquid-vapor interface near the contact line. This is confirmed by side-view images of the deposition results because the contact line region after evaporation of the dense suspension showed a large contact angle compared to that of the diluted suspension. In addition, deposition at the contact line region was observed by scanning electron microscopy to discuss the effect of the characteristic length scale of the surface structure and particles on the contact line motion. We believe that these results will help one to understand the deposition phenomenon during particle-laden droplet evaporation on the superhydrophobic surface and its applications such as evaporation-driven materials deposition.
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- Yutaka Yamada
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Sessile nanofluid droplet can act like a crane. J Colloid Interface Sci 2018; 512:497-510. [PMID: 29096111 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2017.10.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2017] [Revised: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Interactive droplet systems form the backbone for emerging avenues in droplet based technologies like cell sorting, inkjet printing and digital microfluidics, to name a few. These and their associated fields have gained significant importance in the recent times. Here, we report one such phenomenon wherein a naturally evaporating nanocolloidal sessile droplet interacts with a porous silica gel bead to mimic a macro scale mechanical crane assembly. Precisely, we show a sequence of events displayed by the particle laden aqueous droplet (nanoparticles of silica at different loading rates placed on a hydrophobic substrate) when brought in contact with a meso-porous silica gel bead. First, preferential self-assembly along droplet-bead interface is followed by formation of an adhesive bond. The phenomenon continues until the evaporating droplet naturally lifts the bead. The kinematics of the lift mechanism can be represented by a simple four bar linkage. This work provides insights into interactions between droplets and freely placed porous objects across multiple spatio-temporal scales. Present study should not just motivate researchers to design interactive droplet based systems but also use the same to perform engineering tasks like the crane action.
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Zhou ZL, Cao C, Cao LD, Zheng L, Xu J, Li FM, Huang QL. Evaporation kinetics of surfactant solution droplets on rice (Oryza sativa) leaves. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0176870. [PMID: 28472108 PMCID: PMC5417604 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The dynamics of evaporating sessile droplets on hydrophilic or hydrophobic surfaces is widely studied, and many models for these processes have been developed based on experimental evidence. However, few research has been explored on the evaporation of sessile droplets of surfactant or pesticide solutions on target crop leaves. Thus, in this paper the impact of surfactant concentrations on contact angle, contact diameter, droplet height, and evolution of the droplets' evaporative volume on rice leaf surfaces have been investigated. The results indicate that the evaporation kinetics of surfactant droplets on rice leaves were influenced by both the surfactant concentrations and the hydrophobicity of rice leaf surfaces. When the surfactant concentration is lower than the surfactant CMC (critical micelle concentration), the droplet evaporation time is much longer than that of the high surfactant concentration. This is due to the longer existence time of a narrow wedge region under the lower surfactant concentration, and such narrow wedge region further restricts the droplet evaporation. Besides, our experimental data are shown to roughly collapse onto theoretical curves based on the model presented by Popov. This study could supply theoretical data on the evaporation of the adjuvant or pesticide droplets for practical applications in agriculture.
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- Zhao-Lu Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Seong B, Park HS, Chae I, Lee H, Wang X, Jang HS, Jung J, Lee C, Lin L, Byun D. Self-Assembly of Silver Nanowire Ring Structures Driven by the Compressive Force of a Liquid Droplet. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:3367-3372. [PMID: 28287742 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In a nanowire dispersed in liquid droplets, the interplay between the surface tension of the liquid and the elasticity of the nanowire determines the final morphology of the bent or buckled nanowire. Here, we investigate the fabrication of a silver nanowire ring generated as the nanowire encapsulated inside of fine droplets. We used a hybrid aerodynamic and electrostatic atomization method to ensure the generation of droplets with scalable size in the necessary regime for ring formation. We analytically calculate the compressive force of the droplet driven by surface tension as the key mechanism for the self-assembly of ring structures. Thus, for potential large-scale manufacturing, the droplet size provides a convenient parameter to control the realization of ring structures from nanowires.
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- Baekhoon Seong
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University , 2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea
- Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology , Ansan 426-444, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley , Berkeley 94720, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University , 2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University , 2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University , 2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley , Berkeley 94720, United States
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- SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University , 2066 Seobu-ro, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University , 2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea
- SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University , 2066 Seobu-ro, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley , Berkeley 94720, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University , 2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea
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Bansal L, Chakraborty S, Basu S. Confinement-induced alterations in the evaporation dynamics of sessile droplets. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:969-977. [PMID: 28078334 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm02429g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Evaporation of sessile droplets has been a topic of extensive research. However, the effect of confinement on the underlying dynamics has not been well explored. Here, we report the evaporation dynamics of a sessile droplet in a confined fluidic environment. Our findings reveal that an increase in the channel length delays the completion of the evaporation process and leads to unique spatio-temporal evaporation flux and internal flow. The evaporation modes (constant contact angle and constant contact radius) during the droplet lifetime however exhibit global similarity when normalized by appropriate length and timescales. These results are explained in light of an increase in vapor concentration inside the channel due to greater accumulation of water vapor on account of increased channel length. We have formulated a theoretical framework which introduces two key parameters namely an enhanced concentration of the vapor field in the vicinity of the confined droplet and a corresponding accumulation lengthscale over which the accumulated vapor relaxes to the ambient concentration. Using these two parameters and modified diffusion based evaporation we are able to show that confined droplets exhibit a universal behavior in terms of the temporal evolution of each evaporation mode irrespective of the channel length. These results may turn out to be of profound importance in a wide variety of applications, ranging from surface patterning to microfluidic technology.
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- Lalit Bansal
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
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Lebovka NI, Vygornitskii NV, Gigiberiya VA, Tarasevich YY. Monte Carlo simulation of evaporation-driven self-assembly in suspensions of colloidal rods. Phys Rev E 2017; 94:062803. [PMID: 28085421 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.062803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The vertical drying of a colloidal film containing rodlike particles was studied by means of kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. The problem was approached using a two-dimensional square lattice, and the rods were represented as linear k-mers (i.e., particles occupying k adjacent sites). The initial state before drying was produced using a model of random sequential adsorption (RSA) with isotropic orientations of the k-mers (orientation of the k-mers along horizontal x and vertical y directions are equiprobable). In the RSA model, overlapping of the k-mers is forbidden. During the evaporation, an upper interface falls with a linear velocity of u in the vertical direction and the k-mers undergo translation Brownian motion. The MC simulations were run at different initial concentrations, p_{i}, (p_{i}∈[0,p_{j}], where p_{j} is the jamming concentration), lengths of k-mers (k∈[1,12]), and solvent evaporation rates, u. For completely dried films, the spatial distributions of k-mers and their electrical conductivities in both x and y directions were examined. Significant evaporation-driven self-assembly and orientation stratification of the k-mers oriented along the x and y directions were observed. The extent of stratification increased with increasing value of k. The anisotropy of the electrical conductivity of the film can be finely regulated by changes in the values of p_{i}, k, and u.
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- Nikolai I Lebovka
- Department of Physical Chemistry of Disperse Minerals, F. D. Ovcharenko Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, 03142 and Department of Physics, Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University, Kiev, Ukraine, 01033
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- Department of Physical Chemistry of Disperse Minerals, F. D. Ovcharenko Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, 03142
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- Department of Physical Chemistry of Disperse Minerals, F. D. Ovcharenko Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, 03142
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- Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling, Astrakhan State University, Astrakhan, Russia, 414056
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Mahmud MA, MacDonald BD. Experimental investigation of interfacial energy transport in an evaporating sessile droplet for evaporative cooling applications. Phys Rev E 2017; 95:012609. [PMID: 28208416 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.012609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this paper we experimentally examine evaporation flux distributions and modes of interfacial energy transport for continuously fed evaporating spherical sessile water droplets in a regime that is relevant for applications, particularly for evaporative cooling systems. The contribution of the thermal conduction through the vapor phase was found to be insignificant compared to the thermal conduction through the liquid phase for the conditions we investigated. The local evaporation flux distributions associated with thermal conduction were found to vary along the surface of the droplet. Thermal conduction provided a majority of the energy required for evaporation but did not account for all of the energy transport, contributing 64±3%, 77±3%, and 77±4% of the energy required for the three cases we examined. Based on the temperature profiles measured along the interface we found that thermocapillary flow was predicted to occur in our experiments, and two convection cells were consistent with the temperature distributions for higher substrate temperatures while a single convection cell was consistent with the temperature distributions for a lower substrate temperature.
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- Md Almostasim Mahmud
- Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K4, Canada
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- Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K4, Canada
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Boncel S, Herman AP, Budniok S, Jędrysiak RG, Jakóbik-Kolon A, Skepper JN, Müller KH. In Vitro Targeting and Selective Killing of T47D Breast Cancer Cells by Purpurin and 5-Fluorouracil Anchored to Magnetic CNTs: Nitrene-Based Functionalization versus Uptake, Cytotoxicity, and Intracellular Fate. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2016; 2:1273-1285. [DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Sławomir Boncel
- Department
of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 4, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
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- Department
of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 4, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
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- Department
of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 4, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
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- Department
of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 4, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
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- Department
of Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry,
Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego
6, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
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- Cambridge
Advanced Imaging Centre, Department of Physiology, Development and
Neuroscience, Anatomy Building, University of Cambridge, Downing
Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom
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- Cambridge
Advanced Imaging Centre, Department of Physiology, Development and
Neuroscience, Anatomy Building, University of Cambridge, Downing
Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom
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Basu S, Bansal L, Miglani A. Towards universal buckling dynamics in nanocolloidal sessile droplets: the effect of hydrophilic to superhydrophobic substrates and evaporation modes. SOFT MATTER 2016; 12:4896-4902. [PMID: 27125247 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00837b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The evaporation of a nanocolloidal sessile droplet exhibits preferential particle assembly, nanoporous shell formation and buckling to form cavities with unique morphological features. Here, we have established many universal trends that explain the buckling dynamics under one umbrella irrespective of hydrophobicity, evaporation mode and particle loading. We provide a regime map explaining the droplet morphology and buckling characteristics for droplet evaporation on various substrates. Specifically, we find that the final droplet volume and the radius of curvature at the buckling onset are universal functions of particle concentration. Furthermore, we establish that post-buckling cavity growth is evaporation driven regardless of the substrate.
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- Saptarshi Basu
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
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Bansal L, Miglani A, Basu S. Morphological transitions and buckling characteristics in a nanoparticle-laden sessile droplet resting on a heated hydrophobic substrate. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:042605. [PMID: 27176350 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.042605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In this work, we have established the evaporation-liquid flow coupling mechanism by which sessile nanofluid droplets on a hydrophobic substrate evaporate and agglomerate to form unique morphological features under controlled external heating. It is well understood that evaporation coupled with internal liquid flow controls particle transport in a spatiotemporal sense. Flow characteristics inside the heated droplet are investigated and found to be driven by the buoyancy effects. Velocity magnitudes are observed to increase by an order at higher temperatures with similar looking flow profiles. The recirculating flow induced particle transport coupled with collision of particles and shear interaction between them leads to the formation of dome shaped viscoelastic shells of different dimensions depending on the surface temperature. These shells undergo sol-gel transition and subsequently undergo buckling instability leading to the formation of daughter cavities. With an increase in the surface temperature, droplets exhibit buckling from multiple sites over a larger sector in the top half of the droplet. Irrespective of the initial nanoparticle concentration and substrate temperature, growth of a daughter cavity (subsequent to buckling) inside the droplet is found to be controlled by the solvent evaporation rate from the droplet periphery and is shown to exhibit a universal trend.
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- Lalit Bansal
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Zhou P, Gao HL, Yan SC, Zou ZG. The Kirkendall effect towards oxynitride nanotubes with improved visible light driven conversion of CO2 into CH4. Dalton Trans 2016; 45:3480-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c5dt04124d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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ZnGaNO nanotubes can be obtained via the Kirkendall effect, exhibiting the high photocatalytic performance due to the short carrier diffusion distance and less crystal defects.
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- P. Zhou
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures
- Eco-Materials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC)
- School of Physics
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures
- College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing
- PR China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures
- College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing
- PR China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures
- Eco-Materials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC)
- School of Physics
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing
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Bansal L, Miglani A, Basu S. Universal buckling kinetics in drying nanoparticle-laden droplets on a hydrophobic substrate. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:042304. [PMID: 26565237 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.042304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We provide a comprehensive physical description of the vaporization, self-assembly, agglomeration, and buckling kinetics of sessile nanofluid droplets pinned on a hydrophobic substrate. We have deciphered five distinct regimes of the droplet life cycle. Regimes I-III consists of evaporation-induced preferential agglomeration that leads to the formation of a unique dome-shaped inhomogeneous shell with a stratified varying-density liquid core. Regime IV involves capillary-pressure-initiated shell buckling and stress-induced shell rupture. Regime V marks rupture-induced cavity inception and growth. We demonstrate through scaling arguments that the growth of the cavity (which controls the final morphology or structure) can be described by a universal function.
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- Lalit Bansal
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India-560012
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India-560012
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India-560012
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Sereda V, Sawaya MR, Lednev IK. Structural Organization of Insulin Fibrils Based on Polarized Raman Spectroscopy: Evaluation of Existing Models. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:11312-20. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b07535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Valentin Sereda
- Department
of Chemistry, University at Albany, SUNY, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, United States
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- UCLA−DOE Institute, 611 Charles
E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, California 90095-1570, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Albany, SUNY, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, United States
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Control of stain geometry by drop evaporation of surfactant containing dispersions. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2015; 222:275-90. [PMID: 25217332 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2014.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2014] [Revised: 08/16/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Control of stain geometry by drop evaporation of surfactant containing dispersions is an important topic of interest because it plays a crucial role in many applications such as forming templates on solid surfaces, in ink-jet printing, spraying of pesticides, micro/nano material fabrication, thin film coatings, biochemical assays, deposition of DNA/RNA micro-arrays, and manufacture of novel optical and electronic materials. This paper presents a review of the published articles on the diffusive drop evaporation of pure liquids (water), the surfactant stains obtained from evaporating drops that do not contain dispersed particles and deposits obtained from drops containing polymer colloids and carbon based particles such as carbon nanotubes, graphite and fullerenes. Experimental results of specific systems and modeling attempts are discussed. This review also has some special subtopics such as suppression of coffee-rings by surfactant addition and "stick-slip" behavior of evaporating nanosuspension drops. In general, the drop evaporation process of a surfactant/particle/substrate system is very complex since dissolved surfactants adsorb on both the insoluble organic/inorganic micro/nanoparticles in the drop, on the air/solution interface and on the substrate surface in different extends. Meanwhile, surfactant adsorbed particles interact with the substrate giving a specific contact angle, and free surfactants create a solutal Marangoni flow in the drop which controls the location of the particle deposition together with the rate of evaporation. In some cases, the presence of a surfactant monolayer at the air/solution interface alters the rate of evaporation. At present, the magnitude of each effect cannot be predicted adequately in advance and consequently they should be carefully studied for any system in order to control the shape and size of the final deposit.
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Askounis A, Sefiane K, Koutsos V, Shanahan MER. Effect of particle geometry on triple line motion of nano-fluid drops and deposit nano-structuring. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2015; 222:44-57. [PMID: 24927853 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2014.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2014] [Revised: 05/14/2014] [Accepted: 05/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We illustrate the importance of particle geometry on droplet contact line pinning, 'coffee-stain' formation and nano-structuring within the resulting rings. We present the fundamentals of pure liquid droplet evaporation and then discuss the effect of particles on the evaporation process. The resulting coffee-stain patterns and particle structuring within them are presented and discussed. In the second part, we turn our attention to the effect of particle geometry on the evaporation process. A wide range of particle shapes, categorised according to aspect ratio, from the simple shape of a sphere to the highly irregular shapes of platelets and tubes is discussed. Particle geometry effect on evaporation behaviour was quantified in terms of change in contact angle and contact radius for the stick-slip cases. Consequently the hysteretic energy barrier pinning the droplets was estimated, showing an increasing trend with particle aspect ratio. The three-phase contact line (TL) motion kinetics are complemented with analysis of the nano-structuring behaviour of each shape, leading to the identification of the two main parameters affecting nanoparticle self-assembly behaviour at the wedge. Flow velocity and wedge constraints were found to have antagonist effects on particle deposition, although these varied with particle shape. This description should help in understanding the drying behaviour of more complex fluids. Furthermore, knowing the fundamentals of this simple and inexpensive surface patterning technique should permit its tailoring to the needs of many potential 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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- 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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- 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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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Arts et Metiers ParisTech, I2M, UMR 5295, F-33400 Talence, France
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Zhong X, Crivoi A, Duan F. Sessile nanofluid droplet drying. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2015; 217:13-30. [PMID: 25578408 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2014.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2014] [Revised: 09/15/2014] [Accepted: 12/07/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Nanofluid droplet evaporation has gained much audience nowadays due to its wide applications in painting, coating, surface patterning, particle deposition, etc. This paper reviews the drying progress and deposition formation from the evaporative sessile droplets with the suspended insoluble solutes, especially nanoparticles. The main content covers the evaporation fundamental, the particle self-assembly, and deposition patterns in sessile nanofluid droplet. Both experimental and theoretical studies are presented. The effects of the type, concentration and size of nanoparticles on the spreading and evaporative dynamics are elucidated at first, serving the basis for the understanding of particle motion and deposition process which are introduced afterward. Stressing on particle assembly and production of desirable residue patterns, we express abundant experimental interventions, various types of deposits, and the effects on nanoparticle deposition. The review ends with the introduction of theoretical investigations, including the Navier-Stokes equations in terms of solutions, the Diffusion Limited Aggregation approach, the Kinetic Monte Carlo method, and the Dynamical Density Functional Theory. Nanoparticles have shown great influences in spreading, evaporation rate, evaporation regime, fluid flow and pattern formation of sessile droplets. Under different experimental conditions, various deposition patterns can be formed. The existing theoretical approaches are able to predict fluid dynamics, particle motion and deposition patterns in the particular cases. On the basis of further understanding of the effects of fluid dynamics and particle motion, the desirable patterns can be obtained with appropriate experimental regulations.
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Wang Y, Li M, Gu Y, Zhang X, Wang S, Li Q, Zhang Z. Tuning carbon nanotube assembly for flexible, strong and conductive films. NANOSCALE 2015; 7:3060-6. [PMID: 25607989 DOI: 10.1039/c4nr06401a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Carbon nanotubes are ideal scaffolds for designing and architecting flexible graphite films with tunable mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. Herein, we demonstrate that the assembly of aligned carbon nanotubes with different aggregation density and morphology leads to different mechanical properties and anisotropic electrical conduction along the films. Using drying evaporation under tension treatment, the carbon nanotubes can be assembled into strong films with tensile strength and Young's modulus as high as 3.2 GPa and 124 GPa, respectively, leading to a remarkable toughness of 54.38 J g(-1), greatly outperforming conventional graphite films, spider webs and even Kevlar fiber films. Different types of solvents may result in the assembly of CNTs with different aggregation morphology and therefore different modulus. In addition, we reveal that the high density assembly of aligned CNTs correlates with better electric conduction along the axial direction, enabling these flexible graphite films to be both strong and conductive.
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- Yanjie Wang
- Key Laboratory of Aerospace Advanced Materials and Performance (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, No. 37 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
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Wirth CL, De Volder M, Vermant J. Fabrication of planar colloidal clusters with template-assisted interfacial assembly. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:1632-1640. [PMID: 25633426 DOI: 10.1021/la504383m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The synthesis of nanoparticle clusters, also referred to as colloidal clusters or colloidal molecules, is being studied intensively as a model system for small molecule interactions as well as for the directed self-assembly of advanced materials. This paper describes a technique for the interfacial assembly of planar colloidal clusters using a combination of top-down lithographic surface modification and bottom-up Langmuir-Blodgett deposition. Micrometer sized polystyrene latex particles were deposited onto a chemically modified substrate from a decane-water interface with Langmuir-Blodgett deposition. The surface of the substrate contained hydrophilic domains of various size, spacing, and shape, while the remainder of the substrate was hydrophobic. Particles selectively deposited onto hydrophilic regions from the decane-water interface. The number of deposited particles depended on the size of each patch, thereby demonstrating that tuning cluster size is possible by engineering patch geometry. Following deposition, the clusters were permanently bonded with temperature annealing and then removed from the substrate via sonication. The permanently bonded planar colloidal clusters were stable in an aqueous environment and at a decane-water interface laden with isotropic colloidal particles. The method is a simple and fast way to synthesize colloidal clusters with few limitations on particle chemistry, composition, and shape.
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- Christopher L Wirth
- Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven , W. de Croylaan 46, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Zhao Y, Cavallaro G, Lvov Y. Orientation of charged clay nanotubes in evaporating droplet meniscus. J Colloid Interface Sci 2014; 440:68-77. [PMID: 25460691 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2014.10.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2014] [Revised: 10/14/2014] [Accepted: 10/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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During drying, an aqueous suspension of strongly charged halloysite clay nanotubes concentrates at the edge of the droplet ("coffee-ring" effect) which provides alignment of the tubes along the liquid-substrate contact line. First, the surface charge of the nanotubes was enhanced by polyanion adsorption inside of the lumen to compensate for the internal positive charges. This increased the magnitude of the ξ-potential of the tubes from -36 to -81 mV and stabilized the colloids. Then, colloidal halloysite was dropped onto the substrate, dried at 65 °C and after a concentration of ∼0.05 mg mL(-1) was reached, the alignment of nanotubes occurred starting from the droplet edges. The process was described with Onsager's theory, in which longer nanorods, which have higher surface charge, give better ordering after a critical concentration is reached. This study indicates a new application of halloysite clay nanotubes in polymeric composites with anisotropic properties, microchannel orientation, and production of coatings with aligned nanotubes.
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- Yafei Zhao
- Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, USA
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- Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, USA; Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan, Russian Federation.
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Doganci MD, Cavusoglu S, Oksuz M, Erbil HY. Effect of surface free energy to control the deposit morphology during evaporation of graphite/SDS dispersion drops. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2014.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Sereda V, Lednev IK. Polarized Raman Spectroscopy of Aligned Insulin Fibrils. JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY : JRS 2014; 45:665-671. [PMID: 25316956 PMCID: PMC4194063 DOI: 10.1002/jrs.4523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Amyloid fibrils are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases. The application of conventional techniques of structural biology, X-ray crystallography and solution NMR, for fibril characterization is limited because of the non-crystalline and insoluble nature of the fibrils. Here, polarized Raman spectroscopy was used to determine the orientation of selected chemical groups in aligned insulin fibrils, specifically of peptide carbonyls. The methodology is solely based on the measurement of the change in Raman scattered intensity as a function of the angle between the incident laser polarization and the aligned fibrils. The order parameters 〈 P2 〉 and 〈 P4 〉 of the orientation distribution function were obtained, and the most probable distribution of C=O group orientation was calculated. The results indicate that the peptides' carbonyl groups are oriented at an angle of 13±5° from the fibril axis, which is in consistent with previously reported qualitative descriptions of an almost parallel orientation of the C=O groups relative to the main fibril axis.
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- Valentin Sereda
- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, SUNY, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, SUNY, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA
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Ahmad I, Zandvliet HJW, Kooij ES. Shape-induced separation of nanospheres and aligned nanorods. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:7953-7961. [PMID: 24959664 DOI: 10.1021/la500980j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We studied the phase separation and spatial arrangement of gold nanorods and nanospheres after evaporative self-assembly from aqueous suspension. Depending on the position relative to the contact line of the drying droplet, spheres and rods separate into various liquid-crystalline phases. Nanorods exhibit a strong preference for side-by-side alignment, giving rise to smectic phases; spheres in solution are forced out of these regions and form close-packed arrays. We discuss this self-separation into nanorod- and sphere-rich phases in terms of various interactions, including electrostatic, van der Waals, and deplection interactions forces. The experimental results are compared to quantitative calculations of the colloidal interaction energies. We also describe and discuss the role of the surfactant on the different crystal facets of the nanorods on the assembly process.
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- I Ahmad
- Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente , P.O. Box 217, NL-7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Xu T, Davis VA. Liquid crystalline phase behavior of silica nanorods in dimethyl sulfoxide and water. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:4806-4813. [PMID: 24730665 DOI: 10.1021/la405013h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We report lyotropic smectic liquid crystalline phase behavior of silica nanorods dispersed in binary mixtures of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and water (H2O). The phase behavior is affected by nanorod size polydispersity and DMSO concentration in the binary solvent. The isotropic to biphasic transition is strongly affected by the relative amount of DMSO in the solvent, but the solvent has little effect on the biphasic to liquid crystal transition above 40/60 DMSO/H2O by volume. At less than 40% DMSO, increasing silica nanorod concentration initially results in the formation of liquid crystalline domains, but further increasing silica concentration results in crystal solvate formation. The morphology of the liquid crystalline phase is strongly affected by the size polydispersity, with lower polydispersity leading to a more uniform structure. As in other lyotropic nanocylinder systems, the microstructure of continuous solid films produced from the dispersions was affected by both the initial microstructure and the applied shear.
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- Teng Xu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University , Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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Dash S, Garimella SV. Droplet evaporation on heated hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:042402. [PMID: 24827255 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.042402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The evaporation characteristics of sessile water droplets on smooth hydrophobic and structured superhydrophobic heated surfaces are experimentally investigated. Droplets placed on the hierarchical superhydrophobic surface subtend a very high contact angle (∼160°) and demonstrate low roll-off angle (∼1°), while the hydrophobic substrate supports corresponding values of 120° and ∼10°. The substrates are heated to different constant temperatures in the range of 40-60 °C, which causes the droplet to evaporate much faster than in the case of natural evaporation without heating. The geometric parameters of the droplet, such as contact angle, contact radius, and volume evolution over time, are experimentally tracked. The droplets are observed to evaporate primarily in a constant-contact-angle mode where the contact line slides along the surface. The measurements are compared with predictions from a model based on diffusion of vapor into the ambient that assumes isothermal conditions. This vapor-diffusion-only model captures the qualitative evaporation characteristics on both test substrates, but reasonable quantitative agreement is achieved only for the hydrophobic surface. The superhydrophobic surface demonstrates significant deviation between the measured evaporation rate and that obtained using the vapor-diffusion-only model, with the difference being amplified as the substrate temperature is increased. A simple model considering thermal diffusion through the droplet is used to highlight the important role of evaporative cooling at the droplet interface in determining the droplet evaporation characteristics on superhydrophobic surfaces.
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- Susmita Dash
- Cooling Technologies Research Center, an NSF IUCRC School of Mechanical Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2088, USA
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- Cooling Technologies Research Center, an NSF IUCRC School of Mechanical Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2088, USA
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Micoli A, Quintana M, Prato M. Novel nanostructures based on the active interplay between nucleobases and carbon nanotubes. Supramol Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2013.824577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Alessandra Micoli
- Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials (CENMAT), INSTM UdR di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Trieste, Piazzale Europa 1, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Manuel Nava 6, Zona Universitaria, San Luis Potosí, SLP 78290, Mexico
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- Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials (CENMAT), INSTM UdR di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Trieste, Piazzale Europa 1, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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Dash S, Garimella SV. Droplet evaporation dynamics on a superhydrophobic surface with negligible hysteresis. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:10785-10795. [PMID: 23952149 DOI: 10.1021/la402784c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We report on experiments of droplet evaporation on a structured superhydrophobic surface that displays very high contact angle (CA ∼ 160 deg), and negligible contact angle hysteresis (<1 deg). The droplet evaporation is observed to occur in a constant-contact-angle mode, with contact radius shrinking for almost the entire duration of evaporation. Experiments conducted on Teflon-coated smooth surface (CA ∼ 120 deg) as a baseline also support an evaporation process that is dominated by a constant-contact-angle mode. The experimental results are compared with an isothermal diffusion model for droplet evaporation from the literature. Good agreement is observed for the Teflon-coated smooth surface between the analytical expression and experimental results in terms of the total time for evaporation, transient volume, contact angle, and contact radius. However, for the structured superhydrophobic surface, the experiments indicate that the time taken for complete evaporation of the droplet is greater than the predicted time, across all droplet volumes. This disparity is attributed primarily to the evaporative cooling at the droplet interface due to the high aspect ratio of the droplet and also the lower effective thermal conductivity of the substrate due to the presence of air gaps. This hypothesis is verified by numerically evaluating the temperature distribution along the droplet interface. We propose a generalized relation for predicting the instantaneous volume of droplets with initial CA > 90 deg, irrespective of the mode of evaporation.
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- Susmita Dash
- Cooling Technologies Research Center, an NSF IUCRC School of Mechanical Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2088, United States
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Alinejad Y, Faucheux N, Soucy G. Preosteoblasts behavior in contact with single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesized by radio frequency induction thermal plasma using various catalysts. J Appl Toxicol 2013; 33:1143-55. [DOI: 10.1002/jat.2875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Revised: 02/01/2013] [Accepted: 02/15/2013] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Cell-Biomaterial Biohybrid Systems Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnological Engineering; Université de Sherbrooke; 2500 boul. de l'Université; Sherbrooke; Québec; Canada; J1K 2R1
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- Thermal Plasma and Nanomaterial Synthesis Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnological Engineering; Université de Sherbrooke; Sherbrooke, 2500 boul. de l'Université; Sherbrooke; Québec; Canada; J1K 2R1
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Das S, Mitra SK, Chakraborty S. Ring stains in the presence of electromagnetohydrodynamic interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:056317. [PMID: 23214885 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.056317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In a recent paper [Das et al., Phys. Rev. E 85, 046311 (2012)], we delineated the role of electrokinetic transport in modifying the classical "coffee stain" effect. In this study, we extend this calculation to incorporate the consequences of a generalized electromagnetohydrodynamic transport in the coffee stain phenomenon. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effect enhances the velocities at the beginning of the drop life, whereas the electrokinetic effect increases the "disordering" effect in particle deposition at the end of the drop, triggered by a velocity divergence. For a suitable combination of the strength of the MHD and electrokinetic transport, however, this disordering effect is substantially enhanced, and, most nonintuitively, such velocity divergence and the disordering effect may occur at a time that is much earlier than the end of the drop life, or may occur even instantaneously after the start of the drop evaporation. This work will provide useful insight in the understanding of the dynamics of mesoscopic patterns formed as the magnetic nanocrystals deposit in the presence of a combined transport driven by evaporation and magnetic field effects.
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- Siddhartha Das
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G8
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Influence of surface orientation on the organization of nanoparticles in drying nanofluid droplets. J Colloid Interface Sci 2012; 377:456-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2012] [Revised: 03/08/2012] [Accepted: 03/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Beyer ST, Walus K. Controlled orientation and alignment in films of single-walled carbon nanotubes using inkjet printing. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:8753-8759. [PMID: 22571740 DOI: 10.1021/la300770b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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An inkjet printing procedure for depositing films of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that exhibit a very high degree of long-range mutual alignment as well as a controlled orientation with respect to the printed geometry is presented. CNT self-assembly was induced by the intrinsic lyotropic liquid crystallinity of CNT suspensions. Sufficient concentrations are reached by matching the inkjet deposition rate to the numerically modeled local evaporation rate of the printed feature and enable the CNT suspension to be printed using standard inkjet printing. Surface alignment was verified using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and polarized light microscopy. In addition, the bulk morphology was investigated and found to be composed of stacked planar layers that did not necessarily have the same long-range orientation found on the surface. The bulk morphology was characterized by removing layers through an elastomeric peeling process and by observing cross sections of the films using SEM. CNT concentration and length were spanned experimentally, and it was found that very short and very long CNTs as well as low concentration suspensions did not yield long-range alignment.
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- Simon T Beyer
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada.
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Das S, Chakraborty S, Mitra SK. Ring stains in the presence of electrokinetic interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:046311. [PMID: 22680578 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.046311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2011] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In this paper, we delineate the consequences of electrokinetic interactions on the "coffee stain" effect, induced by the deposition of particles during drop evaporation. We consider evaporation of an electrolytic drop in contact with a charged substrate and probe the effects of electrical double layer formation at the drop-substrate interface on the dynamics of particles suspended inside the drop. We show that the simultaneous considerations of streaming potential and flow-actuation-mechanism-independent description of the evaporation flux and the depth average velocities result in an enhanced induced radial pressure gradient. As a result, the deposition speed of the particles in the disordered packing regime, occurring at the end of the lifetime of the drop [Marin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085502 (2011)], is greatly enhanced. This, in turn, is likely to signify an augmented degree of disordering in the evaporation-induced particle deposition.
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- Siddhartha Das
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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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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Dan B, Wingfield TB, Evans JS, Mirri F, Pint CL, Pasquali M, Smalyukh II. Templating of self-alignment patterns of anisotropic gold nanoparticles on ordered SWNT macrostructures. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2011; 3:3718-24. [PMID: 21854006 DOI: 10.1021/am2009019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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We report a simple and versatile technique for oriented assembly of gold nanorods on aligned single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) macrostructures, such as thin nanotube films and nanotube fibers. The deposition and assembly is accomplished via drop drying of dilute gold nanorod suspensions on SWNT macrostructures under ambient conditions. Guided by anisotropic interactions, gold nanorods, and polygonal platelets spontaneously align with SWNTs, resulting in macroscopic arrays of locally ordered nanorods supported on aligned SWNT substrates. SEM reveals that the scalar order parameter of rods relative to the local average SWNT alignment is 0.7 for rods on SWNT films and 0.9 for rods on SWNT fibers. This self-alignment is enabled by anisotropic gold nanoparticle-SWNT interactions and is observed for a wide range of nanoparticles, including nanorods with aspect ratios ranging from 2-35, thin gold triangular and other polygonal platelets. The plasmonic properties of aligned gold nanorods together with superior electronic, chemical and mechanical properties of SWNTs make these hybrid nanocomposites valuable for the design of self-assembled multifunctional optoelectronic materials and optical metamaterials.
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- Budhadipta Dan
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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