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Collective and convective effects compete in patterns of dissolving surface droplets

Soft Matter 12, 5787–5796 (2016)

Authors

	Gianluca Laghezza
	Erik Dietrich
	Julia M. Yeomans
	Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar
	E. Stefan Kooij
	Harold J. W. Zandvliet
	Detlef Lohse

BibTeΧ

@Article{C6SM00767H,
author ="Laghezza, Gianluca and Dietrich, Erik and Yeomans, Julia M. and Ledesma-Aguilar, Rodrigo and Kooij, E. Stefan and Zandvliet, Harold J. W. and Lohse, Detlef",
title  ="Collective and convective effects compete in patterns of dissolving surface droplets",
journal  ="Soft Matter",
year  ="2016",
volume  ="12",
issue  ="26",
pages  ="5787-5796",
publisher  ="The Royal Society of Chemistry",
doi  ="10.1039/C6SM00767H",
url  ="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6SM00767H",
abstract  ="The effects of neighboring droplets on the dissolution of a sessile droplet{,} i.e. collective effects{,} are investigated both experimentally and numerically. On the experimental side small approximately 20 nL mono-disperse surface droplets arranged in an ordered pattern were dissolved and their size evolution is studied optically. The droplet dissolution time was studied for various droplet patterns. On the numerical side{,} lattice-Boltzmann simulations were performed. Both simulations and experiments show that the dissolution time of a droplet placed in the center of a pattern can increase by as much as 60% as compared to a single{,} isolated droplet{,} due to the shielding effect of the neighboring droplets. However{,} the experiments also show that neighboring droplets enhance the buoyancy driven convective flow of the bulk{,} increasing the mass exchange and counteracting collective effects. We show that this enhanced convection can reduce the dissolution time of droplets at the edges of the pattern to values below that of a single{,} isolated droplet."}