Issue 18, 2015

Controlling the buckling instability of drying droplets of suspensions through colloidal interactions

Abstract

The present study focuses on the drying of droplets of colloidal suspensions using the Leidenfrost effect. At the end of drying, grains show different morphologies: cups or spheres depending on the ionic strength or zeta potential of the initial suspension. High ionic strengths and low absolute zeta potential values lead to spherical morphologies. A model based on the calculations of DLVO potentials has been implemented to extract a critical pressure, which provides a quantitative criterion for buckling whatever the initial formulation is. Particularly, the buckling time is quantitatively predicted from the interparticle interactions and shows an excellent agreement with experimental values.

Graphical abstract: Controlling the buckling instability of drying droplets of suspensions through colloidal interactions

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Feb 2015
Accepted
18 Mar 2015
First published
18 Mar 2015

Soft Matter, 2015,11, 3660-3665

Author version available

Controlling the buckling instability of drying droplets of suspensions through colloidal interactions

É. Lintingre, G. Ducouret, F. Lequeux, L. Olanier, T. Périé and L. Talini, Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 3660 DOI: 10.1039/C5SM00283D

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