Skip to main content

Coffee-stain growth dynamics on dry and wet surfaces

Author(s): Boulogne, François; Ingremeau, François; Stone, Howard A

Download
To refer to this page use: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr1xs15
Abstract: The drying of a drop containing particles often results in the accumulation of the particles at the contact line. In this work, we investigate the drying of an aqueous colloidal drop surrounded by a hydrogel that is also evaporating. We combine theoretical and experimental studies to understand how the surrounding vapor concentration affects the particle deposit during the constant radius evaporation mode. In addition to the common case of evaporation on an otherwise dry surface, we show that in a configuration where liquid is evaporating from a flat surface around the drop, the singularity of the evaporative flux at the contact line is suppressed and the drop evaporation is homogeneous. For both conditions, we derive the velocity field and we establish the temporal evolution of the number of particles accumulated at the contact line. We predict the growth dynamics of the stain and the drying timescales. Thus, dry and wet conditions are compared with experimental results and we highlight that only the dynamics is modified by the evaporation conditions, not the final accumulation at the contact line.
Publication Date: 22-Feb-2017
Electronic Publication Date: 30-Dec-2016
Citation: Boulogne, François, Ingremeau, François, Stone, Howard A. (2017). Coffee-stain growth dynamics on dry and wet surfaces. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29 (7), 074001 - 074001. doi:10.1088/1361-648X/aa5160
DOI: doi:10.1088/1361-648X/aa5160
ISSN: 0953-8984
EISSN: 1361-648X
Pages: 074001 - 074001
Type of Material: Journal Article
Journal/Proceeding Title: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Version: Author's manuscript



Items in OAR@Princeton are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.