Control of the Particle Distribution in Inkjet Printing through an Evaporation-Driven Sol-Gel Transition (2014)
Journal Article
Talbot, E., Yang, L., Berson, A., & Bain, C. (2014). Control of the Particle Distribution in Inkjet Printing through an Evaporation-Driven Sol-Gel Transition. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 6(12), 9572-9583. https://doi.org/10.1021/am501966n

A ring stain is often an undesirable consequence of droplet drying. Particles inside evaporating droplets with a pinned contact line are transported toward the periphery by radial flow. In this paper, we demonstrate how suspensions of laponite can be... Read More about Control of the Particle Distribution in Inkjet Printing through an Evaporation-Driven Sol-Gel Transition.

Internal Flows and Particle Transport Inside Picoliter Droplets of Binary Solvent Mixtures (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Talbot, E., Berson, A., Yang, L., & Bain, C. (2013). Internal Flows and Particle Transport Inside Picoliter Droplets of Binary Solvent Mixtures.

The flows in evaporating droplets of binary mixtures are much more complicated than single solvent systems. Solutal Marangoni flows are generated due to differential evaporation of components. High-speed imaging techniques are used to visualize how i... Read More about Internal Flows and Particle Transport Inside Picoliter Droplets of Binary Solvent Mixtures.

Evaporation of picoliter droplets on surfaces with a range of wettabilities and thermal conductivities (2012)
Journal Article
Talbot, E. L., Berson, A., Brown, P. S., & Bain, C. D. (2012). Evaporation of picoliter droplets on surfaces with a range of wettabilities and thermal conductivities. Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 85(6), Article 061604. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.85.061604

The evaporation of picoliter water and ethanol droplets generated by drop-on-demand inkjet printing was investigated on substrates with apparent contact angles between 10∘ and 135∘ and thermal conductivities between 0.25 and 149 Wm−1K−1. Drying times... Read More about Evaporation of picoliter droplets on surfaces with a range of wettabilities and thermal conductivities.