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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 91, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2789402
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Marangoni effect has been observed in many liquids, but its existence in pure water is still a debated problem. In the present work, the Marangoni flow in evaporating water droplets has been observed by using fluorescent nanoparticles. Flow patterns indicate that a stagnation point where the surface flow, the surface tension gradient, and the surface temperature gradient change their directions exists at the droplet surface. The deduced nonmonotonic variation of the droplet surface temperature, which is different from that in some previous works, is explained by a heat transfer model considering the adsorbed thin film of the evaporating liquid droplet. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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