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Evaporation of alcohol droplets on surfaces in moist air (2023)
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Yang, L., Pahlavan, A. A., Stone, H. A., & Bain, C. D. (2023). Evaporation of alcohol droplets on surfaces in moist air. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(38), Article e2302653120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302653120

Droplets of alcohol-based formulations are common in applications from sanitising sprays to printing inks. However, our understanding of the drying dynamics of these droplets on surfaces and the influence of ambient humidity is still very limited. He... Read More about Evaporation of alcohol droplets on surfaces in moist air.

In Situ Self‐Assembly of Nanoscale Particles into Macroscale Ordered Monolayers with Enhanced Memory Performance (2022)
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Li, W., Sun, K., Yang, L., Mao, X., Deng, S., Jiang, H., Gu, P., Cao, B., Li, W., Yi, M., Bain, C. D., Deng, R., & Zhu, J. (2023). In Situ Self‐Assembly of Nanoscale Particles into Macroscale Ordered Monolayers with Enhanced Memory Performance. Small, 29(11), Article 2207468. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202207468

In situ fabrication of macroscale ordered monolayers of nanoparticles (NPs) on targeted substrates is highly desirable for precision electronic and optical devices, while it remains a great challenge. In this study, a solution is provided to address... Read More about In Situ Self‐Assembly of Nanoscale Particles into Macroscale Ordered Monolayers with Enhanced Memory Performance.

Comparative Study of Lipid- and Polymer-Supported Membranes Obtained by Vesicle Fusion (2022)
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Goodband, R. J., Bain, C. D., & Staykova, M. (2022). Comparative Study of Lipid- and Polymer-Supported Membranes Obtained by Vesicle Fusion. Langmuir, 38(18), 5674-5681. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00266

We compare the fusion of giant lipid and block-copolymer vesicles on glass and poly(dimethylsiloxane) substrates. Both types of vesicles are similar in their ability to fuse to hydrophilic substrates and form patches with distinct heart or circular s... Read More about Comparative Study of Lipid- and Polymer-Supported Membranes Obtained by Vesicle Fusion.

Evaporation of a thin droplet in a shallow well: theory and experiment (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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.

A general ink formulation of 2d crystals for wafer-scale inkjet printing (2020)
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Hu, G., Yang, L., Yang, Z., Wang, Y., Jin, X., Dai, J., Wu, Q., Liu, S., Zhu, X., Wang, X., Wu, T.-C., Howe, R. C., Albrow-Owen, T., Ng, L. W., Yang, Q., Occhipinti, L. G., Woodward, R. I., Kelleher, E. J., Sun, Z., Huang, X., …Hasan, T. (2020). A general ink formulation of 2d crystals for wafer-scale inkjet printing. Science Advances, 6(33), Article eaba5029. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba5029

Recent advances in inkjet printing of two-dimensional (2D) crystals show great promise for next-generation printed electronics development. Printing nonuniformity, however, results in poor reproducibility in device performance and remains a major imp... Read More about A general ink formulation of 2d crystals for wafer-scale inkjet printing.

In Situ Fabrication of Polymeric Microcapsules by Ink-Jet Printing of Emulsions (2019)
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Deng, R., Wang, Y., Yang, L., & Bain, C. D. (2019). In Situ Fabrication of Polymeric Microcapsules by Ink-Jet Printing of Emulsions. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(43), 40652-40661. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b14417

Phase separation driven by solvent evaporation of emulsions can be used to create polymeric microcapsules. The combination of emulsion solvent evaporation with ink-jet printing allows the rapid fabrication of polymeric microcapsules at a target locat... Read More about In Situ Fabrication of Polymeric Microcapsules by Ink-Jet Printing of Emulsions.

Fabrication of monolayers of uniform polymeric particles by inkjet printing of monodisperse emulsions produced by microfluidics (2019)
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Wang, Y., Deng, R., Yang, L., & Bain, C. D. (2019). Fabrication of monolayers of uniform polymeric particles by inkjet printing of monodisperse emulsions produced by microfluidics. Lab on a Chip, 19(18), 3077-3085. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9lc00588a

Emulsion solvent evaporation is a well-established method for generating microparticles from solutions of polymers in volatile organic solvents dispersed in an aqueous medium. Previous work has shown that this approach can also be used to deposit par... Read More about Fabrication of monolayers of uniform polymeric particles by inkjet printing of monodisperse emulsions produced by microfluidics.

Drying of ethanol/water droplets containing silica nanoparticles (2019)
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Shi, J., Yang, L., & Bain, C. D. (2019). Drying of ethanol/water droplets containing silica nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(15), 14275-14285. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b21731

The evaporation of colloidal drop on a substrate with a pinned contact line usually results in a ring stain (the so-called coffee-ring effect). In this paper, we present an investigation of the evaporation of sessile picoliter droplets of binary solv... Read More about Drying of ethanol/water droplets containing silica nanoparticles.