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Spilling tea or coffee leads to a tell-tale circular stain after the droplet dries, known as the "coffee ring effect". The evaporation of suspension droplets is a complex physical process, and predicting and controlling the particle deposit…

An evaporating droplet is a dynamic system in which flow is spontaneously generated to minimize the surface energy, dragging particles to the borders and ultimately resulting in the so-called "coffee-stain effect". The situation becomes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-24 Alvaro Marin , Robert Liepelt , Massimiliano Rossi , Christian J. Kähler

We study the initial evolution of the coffee ring that is formed by the evaporation of a thin, axisymmetric, surface tension-dominated droplet containing a dilute solute. When the solutal P\'{e}clet number is large, we show that diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-21 Matthew R. Moore , Dominic Vella , James M. Oliver

Solute deposits from evaporating drops with pinned contact line are usually concentrated near the contact line. The stain, or pattern, left on the substrate then consists of a single ring, commonly known as a coffee ring. Here we report on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir A. Belyi , D. Kaya , M. Muthukumar

Evaporating a droplet containing dispersed colloids leaves behind a dried deposit whose shape is determined by capillary flows and the resulting particle transport. The classical coffee-ring effect occurs when an outward radial flow drives…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Samuel S. Nielsen , Ryker Fish , Brian C. Seper , Brennan Sprinkle , Michelle M. Driscoll

When a colloidal sessile droplet dries on a substrate, the particles suspended in it usually deposit in a ring-like pattern. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as the "coffee-ring" effect. One paradigm for why this occurs is as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-14 Saeed Jafari Kang , Vahid Vandadi , James D. Felske , Hassan Masoud

The coffee-ring effect is a universal feature of evaporating sessile droplets with pinned contact line, wherein solutes or particles are advected to the droplet's edge due to evaporation-driven flows. While existing models have successfully…

Evaporating salty droplets are ubiquitous in nature, in our home and in the laboratory. Interestingly, the transport processes in such apparently simple systems differ strongly from evaporating "freshwater" droplets since convection is…

Formation of coffee stain deposits under evaporation of droplets containing aqueous solution of salts placed on silicone-oil impregnated substrates was observed. The formation of ring-like deposits was registered for various molar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-26 Gilad Chaniel , Mark Frenkel , Victor Multanen , Edward Bormashenko

Our numerical study aims to investigate particle deposit patterns from the evaporation of a sessile colloidal droplet. An in house finite volume code is developed to simulate the coupled phenomena of flow and heat and mass transfer with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-21 A. Mokhtari , M. Ait Saada , S. Chikh , L. Tadrist

The present work investigates numerically the transport of colloidal particles within an evaporating sessile droplet and their deposition on the substrate in unfavourable conditions. The coupled phenomena of fluid flow and heat and mass…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-21 A. Mokhtari , M. AitSaada , S. Chikh , L. Tadrist

How particles are deposited at the edge of evaporating droplets, i.e. the {\em coffee ring} effect, plays a crucial role in phenomena as diverse as thin-film deposition, self-assembly, and biofilm formation. Recently, microorganisms have…

Evaporating colloidal droplets have long been used as model systems to understand capillarity, interfacial transport, and particle assembly, most prominently through the coffee ring effect. In classical descriptions, suspended particles are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-15 Meneka Banik , Ranjini Bandyopadhyay

Ring-shaped deposits can be often found after a droplet evaporates on a substrate. If the fluid in the droplet is a pure liquid and its contact line remains pinned during the process, the mechanism behind such ring-shaped deposition is the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-19 M. A. Bruning , L. Loeffen , A. Marin

The transport and aggregation of particles in suspensions is an important process in many physicochemical and industrial processes. In this work, we study the transport of particles in an evaporating binary droplet. Surprisingly, the…

The present study experimentally and numerically investigates the evaporation and resultant patterns of dried deposits of aqueous colloidal sessile droplets, when the droplets are initially elevated to a high temperature before being placed…

The pioneering work of Deegan et al. [Nature 389, (1997)] showed how a drying sessile droplet suspension of particles presents a maximum evaporating flux at its contact line which drags liquid and particles creating the well known coffee…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-16 Alvaro G. Marin , Hanneke Gelderblom , Jacco Snoeijer , Detlef Lohse

The work is devoted to particles dynamics simulation in a colloidal drop, when it dries on a substrate and the triple-phase boundary is fixed. Experimental observations [Deegan R. D. et. al., 2000] show a ring deposition on a solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-28 K. S. Kolegov

We consider the effect of droplet geometry on the early-stages of coffee ring formation during the evaporation of a thin droplet with an arbitrary simple, smooth, pinned contact line. We perform a systematic matched asymptotic analysis of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Matthew R. Moore , Dominic Vella , James M. Oliver

The drying of a drop containing particles often results in the accumulation of the particles at the contact line. In this work, we investigate the drying of an aqueous colloidal drop surrounded by a hydrogel that is also evaporating. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-31 François Boulogne , François Ingremeau , Howard A. Stone
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