Suppression of the coffee-ring effect by sugar-assisted depinning of contact line.

ABSTRACT: Inkjet printing is of growing interest due to the attractive technologies for surface patterning. During the printing process, the solutes are transported to the droplet periphery and form a ring-like deposit, which disturbs the fabrication of high-resolution patterns. Thus, controlling the uniformity of particle coating is crucial in the advanced and extensive applications. Here, we find that sweet coffee drops above a threshold sugar concentration leave uniform rather than the ring-like pattern. The evaporative deposit changes from a ring-like pattern to a uniform pattern with an increase in sugar concentration. We moreover observe the particle movements near the contact line during the evaporation, suggesting that the sugar is precipitated from the droplet edge because of the highest ev

SUBMITTER: Shimobayashi SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6289994 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature