Control over Coffee-Ring Formation in Evaporating Liquid Drops Containing Ellipsoids

Autor: Venkateshwar Rao Dugyala, Madivala G. Basavaraj
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Surface Properties
Dispersity
Aspect ratio
Chemical reactions
Drops
Evaporation
Experimental investigations
Materials engineering
Mono-disperse particles
Particle aspect ratios
Particle-particle interactions
Particle-particle repulsions
Particle-substrate interactions
Separation technologies
Deposits
ferric ion
ferric oxide
iron perchlorate
perchlorate
phosphate
sodium dihydrogen phosphate
suspension
water
chemical phenomena
chemistry
flocculation
particle size
surface property
volatilization
Ferric Compounds
Flocculation
Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
Particle Size
Perchlorates
Phosphates
Suspensions
Volatilization
Water
Coffee ring effect
Pattern formation
Nanotechnology
Sessile drop technique
Electrochemistry
General Materials Science
Surface charge
Spectroscopy
Chemistry
Surfaces and Interfaces
Condensed Matter Physics
Chemical physics
DLVO theory
Particle
Zdroj: Langmuir. 30:8680-8686
ISSN: 1520-5827
0743-7463
Popis: A control over the nature of deposit pattern obtained after the evaporation of solvent from a sessile drop containing dispersed materials has been demonstrated to have applications in materials engineering, separation technology, printing technology, manufacture of printed circuit boards, biology, and agriculture. In this article, we report an experimental investigation of the effect of particle shape and DLVO (Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek) interactions on evaporation-driven pattern formation in sessile drops. The use of a model system containing monodisperse particles where particle aspect ratio and surface charge can be adjusted reveals that a control over the nature of deposit pattern can be achieved by tuning the particle-particle and particle-substrate interactions. A clear coffee-ring formation is observed when the strength of particle-particle repulsion is higher than the particle-substrate attraction. However, complete suppression of ringlike deposits leading to a uniform film is achieved when particle-substrate and particle-particle interactions are attractive. Results illustrate that for the system of submicron ellipsoids that are hydrophilic, the nature of deposit patterns obtained after evaporation depends on the nature of interactions and not on particle shape. � 2014 American Chemical Society.
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