Evaporation of a thin droplet in a shallow well: theory and experiment (2021)
Journal Article
D'Ambrosio, H., Colosimo, T., Duffy, B., Wilson, S., Yang, L., Bain, C., & Walker, D. (2021). Evaporation of a thin droplet in a shallow well: theory and experiment. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 927, Article A43. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.772

Motivated by the industrial manufacture of OLED displays, we formulate and analyse a mathematical model for the evolution of a thin droplet in a shallow axisymmetric well of rather general shape both before and after touchdown that accounts for the s... Read More about Evaporation of a thin droplet in a shallow well: theory and experiment.

Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes (2021)
Journal Article
Pahlavan, A. A., Yang, L., Bain, C. D., & Stone, H. A. (2021). Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes. Physical Review Letters, 127(2), Article 024501. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.024501

Small multicomponent droplets are of increasing importance in a plethora of technological applications ranging from the fabrication of self-assembled hierarchical patterns to the design of autonomous fluidic systems. While often far away from equilib... Read More about Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes.

Wetting and Drying of Aqueous Droplets Containing Nonionic Surfactants CnEm (2021)
Journal Article
Shi, J., Yang, L., & Bain, C. D. (2021). Wetting and Drying of Aqueous Droplets Containing Nonionic Surfactants CnEm. Langmuir, 37(14), 4091-4101. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c03479

This paper presents a systematic study of the wetting and drying of aqueous pico-liter droplets containing nonionic surfactants polyoxyethylene alkyl ethers (CnEm; n = 10, 12, 14, m = 6 or 8) in comparison with the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl s... Read More about Wetting and Drying of Aqueous Droplets Containing Nonionic Surfactants CnEm.