Effects of Particle Shape on Growth Dynamics at Edges of Evaporating Drops of Colloidal Suspensions

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Effects of Particle Shape on Growth Dynamics at Edges of Evaporating Drops of Colloidal Suspensions

  • Event time: 11:30am
  • Event date: 10th May 2013
  • Speaker: Dario Dell'Arciprete (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

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Abstract

We study the influence of particle shape on growth processes at the edges of evaporating drops. Aqueous suspensions of colloidal particles evaporate on glass slides, and convective flows during evaporation carry particles from drop center to drop edge, where they accumulate. The resulting particle deposits grow inhomogeneously from the edge in two dimensions, and the deposition front, or growth line, varies spatiotemporally. Measurements of the fluctuations of the deposition front during evaporation enable us to identify distinct growth processes that depend strongly on particle shape. Sphere deposition exhibits a classic Poisson-like growth process; deposition of slightly anisotropic particles, however, belongs to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, and deposition of highly anisotropic ellipsoids appears to belong to a third universality class, characterized by Kardar-Parisi-Zhang fluctuations in the presence of quenched disorder.
PRL 110 article 035501 (2013)
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Authors

Peter J. Yunker, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, Alexei Borodin, D. J. Durian, and A. G. Yodh

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