Soft colloidal monolayers with reflection symmetry through confined drying.
| Autor: | Majumder S; Soft Material Laboratory, Department of Physics, IIT Madras Chennai-600036 India.; Centre for Soft and Biological Matter, IIT Madras Chennai-600036 India dks@iitm.ac.in., Basavaraj MG; PECS Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras Chennai-600036 India basa@iitm.ac.in.; Centre for Soft and Biological Matter, IIT Madras Chennai-600036 India dks@iitm.ac.in., Satapathy DK; Soft Material Laboratory, Department of Physics, IIT Madras Chennai-600036 India.; Centre for Soft and Biological Matter, IIT Madras Chennai-600036 India dks@iitm.ac.in. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Nanoscale advances [Nanoscale Adv] 2024 Jul 23. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 23. |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d4na00542b |
| Abstrakt: | Colloidal monolayers serve as fundamental building blocks in fabricating diverse functional materials, pivotal for surface modifications, chemical reactivity, and controlled assembly of nanoparticles. In this article, we report the formation of colloidal monolayers generated by drying an aqueous droplet containing soft colloids confined between two hydrophilic parallel plates. The analysis of the kinetics of evaporation in this confined mode showed that: (i) for a significant portion of the drying time, the drops adopt a catenoid configuration; (ii) in the penultimate stage of drying, the catenoid structure undergoes division into two daughter droplets; (iii) the three-phase contact line remains pinned at a specific location while it continuously slips at all other locations. The interplay between interface-assisted particle deposition onto the solid substrate and the time evolution of particle concentration within the droplet during evaporation results in unique microstructural features in the deposited patterns. Notably, these deposit patterns exhibit reflection symmetry. The microstructural features of the dried deposits are further quantified by calculating the particle number density, inter-particle separation, areal disorder parameter, and bond orientational order parameter. The variation of these parameters for deposits formed under different conditions, such as by altering the spacing between parallel plates and the concentration of microgel particles in the droplet, is discussed. Competing Interests: There are no conflicts to declare. (This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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