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Baldwin, K.A. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9168-6412, Granjard, M., Willmer, D., Sefiane, K. and Fairhurst, D.J. ORCID: 0000-0001-5311-0762,
2011.
Drying and deposition of poly(ethylene oxide) droplets determined by Péclet number.
Soft Matter, 7, pp. 7819-7826.
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Abstract
We report results of a detailed experimental investigation into the drying of sessile droplets of aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) polymer solutions under various experimental conditions. Samples are prepared with a range of initial concentrations c0 and are filtered to remove traces of undissolved PEO clusters. In typical experiments, droplets with initial volumes between 5L and 50L are left to evaporate while temperature and relative humidity are monitored. Droplets either form a disk-like solid “puddle” or a tall conical “pillar”. The droplet mass is monitored using a microbalance and the droplet profile is recorded regularly using a digital camera. Subsequent processing of the data allows values of droplet volume V, surface area A, base radius R, contact angle θ and height h to be determined throughout drying. From this data we identify four stages during pillar formation: pinned drying; pseudo-dewetting; bootstrap building; solid contraction and propose physical models to explain key aspects of each stage and to predict the transition from each stage to the next. The experimental parameters of relative humidity, temperature, pressure, droplet volume and initial contact angle are all systematically varied and observed to influence the drying process and consequently whether the droplet forms a pillar or a puddle. We combine these parameters into a dimensionless Péclet number Pe, which compares the relative effects of evaporation and diffusion, and show that the drying behaviour is only dependent on c0 and Pe.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Soft Matter | ||||
| Creators: | Baldwin, K.A., Granjard, M., Willmer, D., Sefiane, K. and Fairhurst, D.J. | ||||
| Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry | ||||
| Date: | 2011 | ||||
| Volume: | 7 | ||||
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| Rights: | © 2011 The Royal Society of Chemistry | ||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||
| Record created by: | EPrints Services | ||||
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:50 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2019 09:13 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18998 |
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