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Published on: June 8, 2015
Evaporative deposition patterns: spatial dimensions of the deposit
1Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. yopopov@umich.edu
Abstract:
A model accounting for the finite spatial dimensions of the deposit patterns in evaporating sessile drops of a colloidal solution on a plane substrate is proposed. The model is based on the assumption that the solute particles occupy finite volume and hence these dimensions are of steric origin. Within this model, the geometrical characteristics of the deposition patterns are found as functions of the initial concentration of the solute, the initial geometry of the drop, and the time elapsed from the beginning of the drying process. The model is solved analytically for small initial concentrations of the solute and numerically for arbitrary initial concentrations of the solute. The agreement between our theoretical results and the experimental data is demonstrated, and it is shown that the observed dependence of the deposit dimensions on the experimental parameters can indeed be attributed to the finite dimensions of the solute particles. These results are universal and do not depend on any free or fitting parameters; they are important for understanding evaporative deposition and may be useful for creating controlled deposition patterns.
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