Fundamental fluid dynamics challenges in inkjet printing

D Lohse - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Inkjet printing is the most widespread technological application of microfluidics. It is
characterized by its high drop productivity, small volumes, and extreme reproducibility. This …

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 …

Evaporation-driven liquid flow in sessile droplets

H Gelderblom, C Diddens, A Marin - Soft matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The evaporation of a sessile droplet spontaneously induces an internal capillary liquid flow.
The surface-tension driven minimisation of surface area and/or surface-tension differences …

Evaporation of a Droplet: From physics to applications

D Zang, S Tarafdar, YY Tarasevich, MD Choudhury… - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Evaporation of a drop, though a simple everyday observation, provides a fascinating subject
for study. Various issues interact here, such as dynamics of the contact line, evaporation …

Evaporating pure, binary and ternary droplets: thermal effects and axial symmetry breaking

C Diddens, H Tan, P Lv, M Versluis… - Journal of fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The Greek aperitif Ouzo is not only famous for its specific anise-flavoured taste, but also for
its ability to turn from a transparent miscible liquid to a milky-white coloured emulsion when …

Evaporation-triggered microdroplet nucleation and the four life phases of an evaporating Ouzo drop

H Tan, C Diddens, P Lv, JGM Kuerten, X Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
Evaporating liquid droplets are omnipresent in nature and technology, such as in inkjet
printing, coating, deposition of materials, medical diagnostics, agriculture, the food industry …

Fundamentals and applications of surface wetting

T Josyula, L Kumar Malla, TM Thomas, SS Kalichetty… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
In an era defined by an insatiable thirst for sustainable energy solutions, responsible water
management, and cutting-edge lab-on-a-chip diagnostics, surface wettability plays a pivotal …

Controlled uniform coating from the interplay of Marangoni flows and surface-adsorbed macromolecules

H Kim, F Boulogne, E Um, I Jacobi, E Button, HA Stone - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Surface coatings and patterning technologies are essential for various physicochemical
applications. In this Letter, we describe key parameters to achieve uniform particle coatings …

Dynamics and universal scaling law in geometrically-controlled sessile drop evaporation

PJ Sáenz, AW Wray, Z Che, OK Matar, P Valluri… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The evaporation of a liquid drop on a solid substrate is a remarkably common phenomenon.
Yet, the complexity of the underlying mechanisms has constrained previous studies to …

Density-driven flows in evaporating binary liquid droplets

AMJ Edwards, PS Atkinson, CS Cheung, H Liang… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
In the evaporation of microlitre liquid droplets, the accepted view is that surface tension
dominates and the effect of gravity is negligible. We report, through the first use of rotating …