Drying of bio-colloidal sessile droplets: Advances, applications, and perspectives

A Pal, A Gope, A Sengupta - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Drying of biologically-relevant sessile droplets, including passive systems such as DNA,
proteins, plasma, and blood, as well as active microbial systems comprising bacterial and …

Temperature and concentration dependence of human whole blood and protein drying droplets

A Pal, A Gope, G Iannacchione - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The drying of bio-colloidal droplets can be used in many medical and forensic applications.
The whole human blood is the most complex bio-colloid system, whereas bovine serum …

Directing the formation of tunable superlattice crystalline phases from anisotropic nanoparticles

S Khawas, S Bhattacharjee, S Mukherjee… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability to precisely control the self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles into desired and
tunable superstructures holds immense potential, but achieving this remains a challenge …

Dried blood drops on vertical surfaces

RBP Hidalgo, JN Molina-Courtois, YJP Carreón… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2024 - Elsevier
The analysis of structures in dried droplets has made it possible to detect the presence and
conformational state of macromolecules in relevant biofluids. Therefore, the implementation …

Deep learning applied to analyze patterns from evaporated droplets of Viscum album extracts

C Acuña, A Mier y Terán, MO Kokornaczyk… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This paper introduces a deep learning based methodology for analyzing the self-assembled,
fractal-like structures formed in evaporated droplets. To this end, an extensive image …

[HTML][HTML] Texture analysis of dried droplets for the quality control of medicines

YJP Carreón, O Díaz-Hernández, GJ Escalera Santos… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The quality control of medicines guarantees the effectiveness of treatments for diseases. We
explore the use of texture analysis of patterns in dried droplets as a tool to readily detect …

Dried droplets of diluted blood to detect a high concentration of lipids

M Ancheyta-Palacios, IG Velasco-Terán, YJP Carreón… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hyperlipidemia is the elevated concentration of lipids in the blood, and it increases the
probability of arterial obstruction, infarctions, and other complications of the circulatory …

[HTML][HTML] Deposit of Red Blood Cells at low concentrations in evaporating droplets is dominated by a central edge growth

V Sardari, M Mohammadian, S Asfia, F Maurer… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Evaporation of blood droplets and diluted blood samples is a topic of intensive research, as
it is considered a potential low-cost diagnostic tool. So far, samples with a volume fraction …

[HTML][HTML] Evaporation patterns of dextran–Poly (Ethylene Glycol) droplets with changes in wettability and compatibility

C Watanabe, M Yanagisawa - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
The dextran–PEG system is one of the most famous systems exhibiting phase separation.
Various phase behaviors, including the evaporation process of the dextran–PEG system …

Insights into the mechanics of pure and bacteria-laden sessile whole blood droplet evaporation

D Roy, KK Dewangan, A Rasheed, S Jain… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study the mechanics of evaporation and precipitate formation in pure and bacteria-laden
sessile blood droplets in the context of precipitate patterns as a disease diagnostics marker …