Nanodroplets of Polymer Solutions on Solid Surfaces: Equilibrium Structures and Solvent Evaporation

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (24) ◽  
pp. 10882-10897
Author(s):  
Vitaly S. Kravchenko ◽  
Igor I. Potemkin
2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 6443-6449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufei Wang ◽  
Yuting Song ◽  
Satoshi Watanabe ◽  
Suojiang Zhang ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
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Author(s):  
haidong Zhao ◽  
Katsuhiro Isozaki ◽  
Tomoya Taguchi ◽  
Shengchun Yang ◽  
Kazushi Miki

Laying-down gold nanorods (GNRs) of a monolayer immobilized on a solid substrate was realized with the hybrid method, a combination of three elemental technologies: self-assembly, electrophoresis, and solvent evaporation. The...


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1084
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Meleshko ◽  
Vladislav V. Pukhnachev

The famous Toms effect (1948) consists of a substantial increase of the critical Reynolds number when a small amount of soluble polymer is introduced into water. The most noticeable influence of polymer additives is manifested in the boundary layer near solid surfaces. The task includes the ratio of two characteristic length scales, one of which is the Prandtl scale, and the other is defined as the square root of the normalized coefficient of relaxation viscosity (Frolovskaya and Pukhnachev, 2018) and does not depend on the characteristics of the motion. In the limit case, when the ratio of these two scales tends to zero, the equations of the boundary layer are exactly integrated. One of the goals of the present paper is group analysis of the boundary layer equations in two mathematical models of the flow of aqueous polymer solutions: the second grade fluid (Rivlin and Ericksen, 1955) and the Pavlovskii model (1971). The equations of the plane non-stationary boundary layer in the Pavlovskii model are studied in more details. The equations contain an arbitrary function depending on the longitudinal coordinate and time. This function sets the pressure gradient of the external flow. The problem of group classification with respect to this function is analyzed. All functions for which there is an extension of the kernels of admitted Lie groups are found. Among the invariant solutions of the new model of the boundary layer, a special place is taken by the solution of the stationary problem of flow around a rectilinear plate.


Polymer ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 122656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dharmansh Deshawar ◽  
Karan Gupta ◽  
Paresh Chokshi

Author(s):  
G Guangteng ◽  
M Smeeth ◽  
P M Cann ◽  
H A Spikes

Experimental work using ultrathin film interferometry has shown that some polymer solutions in oil form much thicker films at slow speeds in rolling, concentrated contacts than predicted from elastohydrodynamic (EHD) theory. This behaviour can be interpreted as resulting from the polymers forming adsorbed, surface layers of enhanced concentration on the two solid surfaces. Such layers, which are typically 20 nm thick, would be significantly more viscous that the bulk solution and thus produce thicker EHD films. This concept has been supported by modelling the elastohydrodynamic point contact using control volume analysis with a layered surface viscosity. The film thickness behaviour predicted computationally using this technique is quite similar to that found experimentally using polymer solutions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Schaefer ◽  
P. van der Schoot ◽  
J. J. Michels

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