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 …

Droplet drying patterns on solid substrates: from hydrophilic to superhydrophobic contact to levitating drops

S Tarafdar, YY Tarasevich… - … in Condensed Matter …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This review is devoted to the simple process of drying a multicomponent droplet of a
complex fluid which may contain salt or other inclusions. These processes provide a …

Chemical ecosystem selection on mineral surfaces reveals long-term dynamics consistent with the spontaneous emergence of mutual catalysis

L Vincent, M Berg, M Krismer, ST Saghafi, J Cosby… - Life, 2019 - mdpi.com
How did chemicals first become organized into systems capable of self-propagation and
adaptive evolution? One possibility is that the first evolvers were chemical ecosystems …

Pre-activation of aerosol particles by ice preserved in pores

C Marcolli - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Pre-activation denotes the capability of particles or materials to nucleate ice at lower relative
humidities or higher temperatures compared to their intrinsic ice nucleation efficiency after …

Pattern formation in droplets of starch gels containing NaCl dried on different surfaces

MD Choudhury, T Dutta, S Tarafdar - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2013 - Elsevier
A colloidal gel containing an inorganic salt is a very interesting system. The simple process
of drying a small droplet of such a solution on a solid surface produces a fascinatingly rich …

Cationic surfactant-directed structural control of NaCl crystals from evaporating sessile droplets

JK Dewangan, N Basu, M Chowdhury - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report morphological regulation of NaCl (sodium chloride) crystals through the
evaporative crystallisation process of microdroplets containing a cationic surfactant CTAB …

Growth kinetics of NaCl crystals in a drying drop of gelatin: transition from faceted to dendritic growth

MD Choudhury, T Dutta, S Tarafdar - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a study on the kinetics of drying of a droplet of aqueous gelatin containing sodium
chloride. The process of drying recorded as a video clearly shows different regimes of …

Dendritic growth of NaCl crystals in a gel matrix: Variation of branching and control of bending

M Goto, Y Oaki, H Imai - Crystal Growth & Design, 2016 - ACS Publications
A variety of 2D dendritic morphologies, such as orthogonal lattices, oblique lattices, curved
weaves, and randomly branching morphologies, of a simple cubic crystal, NaCl, were …

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 …

Morphology modulation in evaporative drying mediated crystallization of sodium chloride solution droplet with surfactant

N Basu, R Mukherjee - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the evaporative drying of an aqueous droplet containing a dilute solution of
sodium chloride (NaCl) on a hydrophobic substrate made of cross-linked poly-dimethyl …