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Droplet evaporation on soft solid substrates

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SOFT MATTER
卷 17, 期 41, 页码 9339-9352

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00828e

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  1. American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
  2. Onassis Foundation [F ZP 059-1/2019-2020]

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A model was developed to study droplet evaporation on soft solid substrates, showing that softer substrates speed up droplet evaporation and can qualitatively reproduce key trends observed in experiments. The systematic formulation of the model allows for extension to more complex situations such as evaporation of particle-laden droplets on soft solid substrates.
Droplet evaporation on soft solid substrates is relevant to applications such as fabrication of microlenses and controlled particle deposition. Here, we develop a lubrication-theory-based model to advance fundamental understanding of the important limiting case of a planar droplet evaporating on a linear viscoelastic solid. A set of partial differential equations describing the time evolution of the liquid-air and liquid-solid interfaces is derived and solved with a finite-difference method. A disjoining-pressure/precursor-film approach is used to describe contact-line motion, and the one sided model is used to describe solvent evaporation. Parametric studies are conducted to investigate the effect of solid properties (thickness, viscosity, shear modulus, wettability) and evaporation rate on droplet dynamics. Our results indicate that softer substrates speed up droplet evaporation due to prolonged pinning of the contact line. Results from our model are able to qualitatively reproduce some key trends observed in experiments. Due to its systematic formulation, our model can readily be extended to more complex situations of interest such as evaporation of particle-laden droplets on soft solid substrates.

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