A review on suppression and utilization of the coffee-ring effect

D Mampallil, HB Eral - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2018 - Elsevier
Evaporation of sessile droplets containing non-volatile solutes dispersed in a volatile solvent
leaves behind ring-like solid stains. As the volatile species evaporates, pinning of the …

Evaporation of a Droplet: From physics to applications

D Zang, S Tarafdar, YY Tarasevich, MD Choudhury… - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Evaporation of a drop, though a simple everyday observation, provides a fascinating subject
for study. Various issues interact here, such as dynamics of the contact line, evaporation …

A bionic interface to suppress the coffee‐ring effect for reliable and flexible perovskite modules with a near‐90% yield rate

B Fan, J Xiong, Y Zhang, C Gong, F Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The inhomogeneity, poor interfacial contact, and pinholes caused by the coffee‐ring effect
severely affect the printing reliability of flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein …

Inkjet printing wearable electronic devices

M Gao, L Li, Y Song - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, wearable electronics have experienced tremendous development due to
their promising applications in fields such as portable, flexible/stretchable human-interactive …

Evaporation-driven liquid flow in sessile droplets

H Gelderblom, C Diddens, A Marin - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Controllable printing droplets for high‐resolution patterns

M Kuang, L Wang, Y Song - Advanced materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Inkjet printing has attracted wide attention due to the important applications in fabricating
biological, optical, and electrical devices. During the inkjet printing process, the solutes …

Rate-dependent interface capture beyond the coffee-ring effect

Y Li, Q Yang, M Li, Y Song - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The mechanism of droplet drying is a widely concerned fundamental issue since controlling
the deposition morphology of droplet has significant influence on printing, biology pattern …

Recent advances in controlling the depositing morphologies of inkjet droplets

J Sun, B Bao, M He, H Zhou, Y Song - ACS applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Inkjet printing has been widely used in functional material patterning for fabrication of
optical/electrical devices. The depositing morphologies of inkjet droplets are critical to the …

Avoiding drying-artifacts in transmission electron microscopy: Characterizing the size and colloidal state of nanoparticles

B Michen, C Geers, D Vanhecke, C Endes… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Standard transmission electron microscopy nanoparticle sample preparation generally
requires the complete removal of the suspending liquid. Drying often introduces artifacts …

Mechanisms of pattern formation from dried sessile drops

M Parsa, S Harmand, K Sefiane - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2018 - Elsevier
The formation of patterns after the evaporation of colloidal droplets deposited on a solid
surface is an everyday natural phenomenon. During the past two decades, this topic has …