Revisiting the inhomogeneity in drop-on-demand printing of graphene: An effective route for overcoming the coffee-ring effect

J Niu, L Qi, H Lian, J Luo, R Zhang, X Chao - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2024 - Elsevier
Graphene patterns by drop-on-demand (DOD) printing are promising for fabricating
functional devices in industry. However, uneven solute distribution caused by the coffee-ring …

Evaporation of squeezed water droplets between two parallel hydrophobic/superhydrophobic surfaces

X He, J Cheng, CP Collier, BR Srijanto… - Journal of colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypothesis A liquid droplet is apt to be deformed within a compact space in various
applications. The morphological change of a droplet and vapor accumulation in the confined …

Molecular origin of fast evaporation at the solid–water–vapor line in a sessile droplet

Y Huang, C Zhang, S Meng - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
By analyzing the behaviors of water molecules at the solid–water–vapor contact line, we
explore the molecular origin of large evaporation rates at the contact line and find new ways …

Molecular dynamics study of thermally augmented nanodroplet motion on chemical energy induced wettability gradient surfaces

M Chakraborty, A Chowdhury, R Bhusan, S DasGupta - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
Droplet motion on a surface with chemical energy induced wettability gradient has been
simulated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to highlight the underlying physics of …

Rheology-modulated contact line dynamics of an immiscible binary system under electrical double layer phenomena

PK Mondal, D DasGupta, S Chakraborty - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate the electrically driven contact line dynamics of a binary fluid system
constituted by one Newtonian and another non-Newtonian fluid in a narrow fluidic channel …

Deposition pattern and tracer particle motion of evaporating multi-component sessile droplets

M Amjad, Y Yang, G Raza, H Gao, J Zhang… - Journal of colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The understanding of near-wall motion, evaporation behavior and dry pattern of sessile
nanofluid droplets is fundamental to a wide range of applications such as painting, spray …

Roughness-induced chemical heterogeneity leads to large hydrophobicity in wetting-translucent nanostructures

JE Andrews, Y Wang, S Sinha… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Hydrophobic graphene marries the usefulness of graphene with the benefits of a
hydrophobic surface leading to applications in oil–water separation, wettability switching …

Dynamics of contact line pinning and depinning of droplets evaporating on microribs

A Mazloomi Moqaddam, D Derome, J Carmeliet - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
The contact line dynamics of evaporating droplets deposited on a set of parallel microribs is
analyzed with the use of a recently developed entropic lattice Boltzmann model for two …

Wetting of aqueous sodium dodecyl sulfate droplets on polydimethylsiloxane surfaces during evaporation

XY Yang, GH Li, X Huang, YS Yu - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wetting of aqueous sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) droplets on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)
surfaces during evaporation were experimentally studied. After a short-time spontaneous …

Molecular investigation of contact line movement in electrowetted nanodroplets

D Chakraborty, S Pathak, M Chakraborty - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of an electrowetted nanodroplet is performed to
understand the fundamental origin of the involved parameters resulted from the molecular …