Evaporation, pervaporation, and forward osmosis are processes leading to a mass transfer
of solvent across an interface: gas/liquid for evaporation and solid/liquid (membrane) for …

The drying of complex fluids involves a large number of microscopic phenomena (transport
and organization of non-volatile solutes) as well as hydrodynamic and mechanical …

Bringing together basic ideas, classical theories, recent experimental and theoretical
aspects, this book explains desiccation cracks from simple, easily-comprehensible cases to …

We derive a model to describe the dynamics of confined directional drying of a colloidal
dispersion. In such experiments, a dispersion of rigid colloids is confined in a capillary tube …

In this work, a comprehensive series of experiments is conducted to investigate the drying
behavior of micro-and nanosized particle dispersions. To this end, an acoustic levitator was …

We report small-angle x-ray scattering experiments on aqueous dispersions of colloidal
silica with a broad monomodal size distribution (polydispersity, 14%; size, 8 nm). Over a …

By mixing glass beads with a curable polymer we create a well-defined cohesive granular
medium, held together by solidified, and hence elastic, capillary bridges. This material has a …

Charged colloidal dispersions make up the basis of a broad range of industrial and
commercial products, from paints to coatings and additives in cosmetics. During drying, an …

Colloidal suspensions are the basis of a wide variety of coatings, prepared as liquids and
then dried into solid films. The processes at play during film formation, however, are difficult …

We have developed a poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) microfluidic chip to study the
directional drying of a colloidal dispersion confined in a channel. Our measurements on a …