The evaporation of a sessile droplet spontaneously induces an internal capillary liquid flow.
The surface-tension driven minimisation of surface area and/or surface-tension differences …

The wetting of solid surfaces using liquid droplets has been studied since the early 1800s.
Thomas Young and Pierre-Simon Laplace investigated the wetting properties, as well as the …

Solids dispersed in a drying drop will migrate to the edge of the drop and form a solid ring.
This phenomenon produces ringlike stains and occurs for a wide range of surfaces …

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 …

Dip-coating is an ideal method to prepare thin layers from chemical solutions since it is a low-
cost and waste-free process that is easy to scale up and offers a good control on thickness …

Dip-coating of sol− gel solutions is a complex dynamic process that is difficult to model
because it is associated with time-dependent evaporation-induced concentration and …

Conductive patterns with line widths of 5-10 µm are successfully fabricated by utilizing the
coffee-ring effect in inkjet printing, resulting in transmittance values of up to 91.2% in the …

An emergent technique of patterning surfaces with solid particles utilizes the evaporation of
colloidal droplets from a substrate. Upon complete evaporation of the liquid, the suspended …

When a colloidal suspension droplet evaporates from a solid surface, it leaves a
characteristic deposit in the contact region. These deposits are common and important for …

Drops containing suspended particles are placed on surfaces of patterned wettability
created using soft lithography; the drop diameter is large compared to the dimensions of the …