Wetting and evaporation of multicomponent droplets

Z Wang, D Orejon, Y Takata, K Sefiane - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Wetting and evaporation of sessile droplets are ubiquitous in nature and of importance to
many industrial and everyday processes. While most of the research on sessile droplets has …

Applying droplets and films in evaporative lithography

KS Kolegov, LY Barash - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
This review covers experimental results of evaporative lithography and analyzes existing
mathematical models of this method. Evaporating droplets and films are used in different …

Self-driven droplet transport: Effect of wettability gradient and confinement

IU Chowdhury, P Sinha Mahapatra, AK Sen - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Surface tension driven droplet transport in an open surface is increasingly becoming
popular for various microfluidic applications. In this work, efficient transport of a glycerin …

[HTML][HTML] Control of solutal Marangoni-driven vortical flows and enhancement of mixing efficiency

J Park, J Ryu, HJ Sung, H Kim - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypothesis In droplet microfluidics applications, flow control and mixing in a small volume
without any active external devices is a challenge. Vapor-mediated solutal Marangoni flows …

Precipitation dynamics of surrogate respiratory sessile droplets leading to possible fomites

A Rasheed, S Sharma, P Kabi, A Saha… - Journal of colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypothesis The droplets ejected from an infected host during expiratory events can get
deposited as fomites on everyday use surfaces. Recognizing that these fomites can be a …

Multiple Marangoni flows in a binary mixture sessile droplet

H Kim - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A multicomponent droplet evaporation problem has widely been investigated due to diverse
industrial applications, including ink-jet printing, surface coating and patterning, medical …

Multiscale vapor-mediated dendritic pattern formation and bacterial aggregation in complex respiratory biofluid droplets

O Hegde, R Chatterjee, A Rasheed… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Deposits of biofluid droplets on surfaces (such as respiratory droplets formed
during an expiratory) are composed of water-based salt-protein solution that may also …

Evaporation-induced transport of a pure aqueous droplet by an aqueous mixture droplet

B Majhy, AK Sen - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Transport of droplets on surfaces is important for a variety of applications such as micro
liquid handling and biochemical assays. Here, we report evaporation-induced attraction …

Analysis of vapor-driven solutal Marangoni flows inside a sessile droplet

J Ryu, J Kim, J Park, H Kim - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2021 - Elsevier
We study experimentally and theoretically how vapor-driven solutal Marangoni flows inside
a sessile droplet are created. To measure the flow field, we perform a conventional particle …

Stability of line shapes in inkjet printing at low substrate speeds

X Gao, H Chen, Q Nie, H Fang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Line formation control plays a critical role in inkjet printing stability for its high relevance to
industrial processes. The present study describes experiments for depositing droplets of …