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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 17, Pages 7388-7393Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01871
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We show that macroscopic crystals of NaCl that form from evaporating drops of aqueous salt solutions can spontaneously lift themselves up and away from a hydrophobic surface. At the end of the evaporation process, tiny crystals of NaCl grow onto larger ones and form legs that push the large crystals away from the surface. The temperature dependence of the lifting speed is found to exhibit Arrhenius behavior with an activation energy similar to that of crystals growing in solution: the crystal growth itself determines the lifting speed that can be up to half a centimeter per minute. We show that surface hydrophobicity is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to obtain this self-lifting behavior.
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