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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 100, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.044503
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The contact line in an evaporating drop can stay pinned to form a single ring or can shrink in a discontinuous stepwise manner and generate multiple rings. We demonstrate the latter with DNA solutions and attribute it to a pinning-depinning cycle that generates new contact lines. The new contact line recedes after depinning and is repinned at an internal precipitate ring that determines the location of the next contact line. Each precursor ring is formed when DNAs are trapped by an internal microstagnation flow and precipitation dynamics hence control this unsteady drop motion.
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