Academic literature on the topic 'Sessile Drops'

This dissertation reports on the discovery of a new method of patterning bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1) on a surface using a drying sessile drop. This work identifies bacterial suspension age and the length of time mica is exposed to the laboratory atmosphere as the key parameters which impact the behavior of the sessile drop and the resulting residue. Possible origins of mica aging and bacterial suspension aging are discussed in light of the literature and the experimental conditions. The residue area and the fraction of the residue area on which substantial bacteria and salt deposits remained after the drying of the drop (fill-in fraction) were measured via analysis of optical micrographs. In general, smaller residues are more filled in. For fresh bacterial suspensions, and short mica exposure times, the residue covers the largest area and is characterized by rings formed during discrete depinning events as the solvent evaporates. As the exposure time increases and the mica surface slowly picks up contaminants from the atmosphere, the drop residue shrinks in size and bacteria are deposited in a regular cellular film in the interior of the drop residue. The fraction of the interior area covered by the cellular film is well correlated with the mica exposure time. For sufficiently aged bacterial suspensions, residues are small and more filled-in than residues formed from fresh suspensions on similarly aged mica. In addition, the interior deposition pattern transitions from a cellular film characteristic of fresh suspensions to a cracked carpet pattern for aged suspensions. Suspension aging related changes in the residues are attributed to accumulation of organic materials such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and other bacterial components in the suspension. The suspension aging process is also observed to be at least partially dependent on ventilation of the suspension during aging.

Le processus d'étalement et d'évaporation d'une goutte de suspensions de particules sur une surface solide est très intéressant permettant la formation de motifs. Une étude expérimentale à été effectuée avec du sang total humain et avec des fluides purs dans une chambre sous atmosphère contrôlée en humidité relative. Pour des angles de contact faible, le processus d'étalement/évaporation peut être divisé en deux régimes. Un premier régime rapide gouverné par un équilibre entre les forces visqueuses et les forces capillaires et un deuxième régime plus lent dominé par la cinétique d'évaporation. Nous montrons que les bio-colloïdes jouent un rôle significatif sur la dynamique de la ligne de contact. La vitesse moyenne de la ligne de contact suit la même dynamique d'étalement que le modèle de Tanner, où le temps d'étalement et les paramètres géométriques de la goutte sont fonctions de l'humidité. Dans cette étude, nous montrons que l'humidité relative influence les paramètres géométriques de la goutte et par conséquent le motif a la fin du processus d'évaporation. Un modèle purement diffusif pur a été obtenu dont le diamètre de mouillage et l'angle de contact sont fonction de l'humidité. Pour l'analyse morphologique des motifs de craquelures, une méthode de segmentation manuelle a été utilisée comme une méthode de référence pour la validation de la méthode de segmentation automatique développée dans "iBlood". Par cette méthode, nous montrons que la cinétique d'évaporation influence la distribution structurelle et morphologique des cellules de forme trapézoïdale, et par conséquent, l'espacement des fractures moyenne finale<br>Spreading/evaporation process of droplets over solid surfaces is a fundamental process and a wide research field because of number of applications in printing, micro-electronics, DNA analysis and even in biomedical. This experimental work aims to investigate the effect of relative humidity on the contact line dynamics, on the evaporation dynamics and on the final pattern of a drop of whole human blood. The spreading of a pure fluid model that has the same physical properties as human blood was studied and compared to the blood. We showed that bio-colloids play significant effect on the dynamics of contact line and the pinning effect of the drop. For low contact angles, we showed that the spreading/evaporation process could be divided into two regimes. A fast first regime determined by a balance between viscous forces and capillary forces and a second slower regime dominated by the evaporation rate. Physical mechanisms that are responsible for the spreading enhancement are proposed and discussed. The average velocity of the contact line was found to follow the same behaviour as Tanner's model, where the spreading dynamics and geometrical parameters of the droplet are function of relative humidity. The experimental measurements are in a good agreement with the purely diffusive model where the equilibrium wetting radius and contact angle are function of relative humidity. For the morphological analysis of crack patterns, a manual segmentation method was used as a reference for the validation of the automatic developed segmentation method. We showed that the evaporation rate influences structural distribution of plaques in the corona region and hence, the mean crack spacing

Coalescence of liquid drops is important in many natural and industrial processes, such as raining, inkjet printing and coating applications. The coalescence for sessile drops is more complicated due to the additional interplay between the drops and solid surface. This work examines the impact of gravity, interfacial tensions and wetting properties on both the static and dynamic aspects of the coalescence of sessile drops. In the presence of gravity, seven dimensionless parameters are identified to describe the axisymmetric configuration of a compound sessile drop after coalescence. A stability criterion is established based on the perturbation of Laplacian shape and the stability criterion is numerically evaluated in the zero Bond number limit. Surface Evolver simulations and experiments are performed for compound sessile drops at small and intermediate Bond numbers. Both simulations and experiments agree closely with the zero Bond number analysis, exhibiting a small discrepancy at intermediate Bond number. For the dynamics of sessile drop coalescence, experiments are performed for miscible fluids with similar surface tensions but different densities and viscosities. The coalescence behavior shows three distinctive stages with well separated timescales: an initial stage of fast bridge healing process, an intermediate stage of advective motion for fluids with different densities, and a final stage of diffusion. A dimensional analysis shows that the flow behavior for the advective motion resembles gravity current. A more detailed analytical model based on the lubrication approximation is conducted and demonstrates good qualitative agreement with the advective motion during the sessile drop coalescence.

L'évaporation d'une goutte reposant sur un support plat semble être un système relativement simple à étudier et a fait l'objet d'études scientifiques depuis plus d'un siècle. Cependant, l'étude de l'évaporation de gouttes sessiles est toujours d'actualité aujourd'hui avec l'essor de nouvelles techniques de visualisation ou de l'apparition de nouveaux types de fluides complexes.Cette étude expérimentale sera focalisée sur deux aspects distincts :- L'étude sur l'évaporation de fluides purs permettra d'étudier la dynamique d'évaporation et les ondes hydrothermales qui apparaissent dans les gouttes de fluides volatils lors du changement de phase. L'influence du type de fluide (différents alcools et alcanes) et du niveau de gravité (terrestre, lunaire et martienne) seront étudiés. De plus, l'utilisation de différents niveaux de gravité permet de développer un modèle empirique afin de prendre en compte dans le modèle quasi-stationnaire limité par diffusion de la vapeur la convection naturelle qui augmente fortement le débit d'évaporation.- Si les fluides complexes présentent une dynamique de séchage similaire à celle des fluides purs, d'autres mécanismes entrent en jeux, comme la gélification, l'organisation des particules et l'apparition de craquelures (voir Figure 2). Le mouillage et les différents groupes fonctionnels graphés sur les particules seront étudiés en regard du motif final de craquelures<br>Sessile droplets are widely found in day to day life: it might be a coffee spilt, rain onto a waterproof raincoat or again, water falling onto a cooking plate. However, despite the vast number of studies devoted to droplets for almost half a century, the fundamental phenomenon of the evaporation of sessile droplets is still a field that attracts a high level of interest due to its wide applicability and the development of new visualisation techniques or new types of complex fluids. This experimental study is focused two distinct aspects:- The evaporation of pure fluids has allow to study hydrothermal waves that appear in the droplets of volatile fluids during phase change. The influence of the type of fluid ---different alcohols and alkanes--- and the gravity levels ---Terrestrial, Lunar and Martian--- is investigated to have a better understanding of the flow motion inside droplet. Moreover, the use of different gravity levels allows to experimentally evidence the contribution of the atmospheric convective transport to sessile droplet evaporation. This investigation has allowed to develop an empirical model to take account of natural convection which greatly increases the evaporation rate in the quasi-steady diffusion-controlled evaporation model.- If complex fluids exhibit an evaporation dynamic similar to pure fluid, other mechanisms come into play, such as gelation, particles organisation and cracks formation. Wetting and different functional groups on the particles graphs will be studied in relation to the final pattern of cracks

This PhD thesis is focused on the role of interfaces that characterize microfluidic systems, such as the free air/liquid interface of drops or the liquid/solid interface of fluids enclosed in microchannels. This work has a twofold character: on one side, we studied the dynamics of sessile drops subject to oscillations of the substrate; on the other, we investigated the spatial concentration distribution of suspensions of motile bacteria, as a model system for active collids, tuned by geometrical confinement. Dynamics of sessile drops. The first topic is related to the field of wetting phenomena and open microfluidics, which deals with the behaviour of drops, typically in the nano-/microliter range, deposited on open surfaces. At such length scale, these systems are dominated by capillarity and may give rise to unexpected effects, not commonly observed at the larger scale we are used to. Our studies aim to the achievement of an active control on the motion and shape of drops by means of vibration of the substrates, for chemical or biological applications. In particular, the motion of liquid drops on an inclined substrate subject to vertical harmonic oscillations have been considered. Typically, small droplets on inclined surfaces remain pinned because of contact angle hysteresis. When vertical oscillations are applied the droplets unpin and slide down. Surprisingly, for sufficiently large oscillation amplitude the droplets move upward against gravity. The systematical investigation of the response of drops on varying peak acceleration and frequency of oscillations, for fluids with different surface tensions and viscosity, allowed the control of the unidimensional motion along the substrate. Then, we have studied the interfacial morphologies of water drops confined on the hydrophilic top face of rectangular posts of width 0.5 mm and various length. For small volumes, the liquid film adopts the shape of a homogeneous filament with a uniform cross section close to a circular segment. For larger volumes, the water interface forms a central bulge, which grows with the volume. In the case of posts longer than a characteristic length, the transition between the two film shapes on varying the volume is discontinuous and exhibits the bistability of the two morphologic states associated with a hysteresis phenomenon. Vertically oscillating the post, with fixed water volume corresponding to the bistability, at certain frequencies induces an irreversible transition from the filament to the bulge state. Self-propelled particles under geometrical confinement. The second topic deals with the behaviour of active fluids, i.e. self-propelled colloid suspensions which are intrinsically out of equilibrium systems (Active Matter). In particular, in the presence of geometrical structures, such systems behave in a very different way with respect to equilibrium Browinan colloids. We have analyzed the role of different swimming patterns on the concentration distribution of bacterial suspensions confined between two flat walls, by considering wild-type E. coli and P. aeruginosa, which perform Run and Tumble and Run and Reverse patterns, respectively. The concentration profiles have been obtained by counting motile bacteria at different distances from the bottom wall. In agreement with previous studies, an accumulation of motile bacteria close to the walls was observed. Different fraction of motile bacteria and different wall separations, ranging from 100 μm to 250 μm, have been tested. The concentration profiles resulted to be independent on the walls separation and on the different kind of motility and to scale with the motile fraction. These results are confirmed by numerical simulations, based on a collection of self-propelled rod-like particles interacting only through steric interactions.<br>Questa tesi di dottorato prende in esame il ruolo delle interfacce che caratterizzano i sistemi microfluidici, come ad esempio l’interfaccia libera aria/acqua delle gocce o l’interfaccia liquido/solido di fluidi racchiusi in microcanali. Questo lavoro ha un duplice carattere: da una parte, abbiamo studiato la dinamica di gocce sessili soggette ad oscillazioni del substrato; dall’altra, abbiamo investigato come la distribuzione spaziale della concentrazione in sospensioni batteriche, prese come sistema modello per colloidi attivi, venga alterata da un confinamento geometrico. Dinamica di gocce sessili. Il primo argomento rientra nel campo dei fenomeni di bagnabilità e della microfluidica aperta, che tratta il comportamento di gocce, tipicamente nel range dei nano- /microlitri, depositate su superfici aperte. A tali scale di lunghezza, questi sistemi sono dominati dalla capillarità a possono produrre effetti inaspettati che non vengono comunemente osservati alle scale macroscopiche a cui siamo abituati. I nostri studi sono volti al raggiungimento del controllo attivo del moto e della forma delle gocce per mezzo di vibrazioni del substrato, con applicazioni dalla Chimica alla Biologia. In particolare, è stato considerato il moto di gocce su in substrato inclinato sottoposto ad oscillazioni armoniche verticali. Normalmente, su superfici inclinate le goccioline rimangono ferme a causa dell’isteresi dell’angolo di contatto. Quando vengono applicate oscillazioni verticali le goccioline si sbloccano e scivolano giù. Sorprendentemente, per ampiezze di oscillazioni sufficientemente grandi le goccioline si muovono verso l’atro contro la forza di gravità. Un’analisi della risposta delle gocce al variare dell’accelerazione di picco e della frequenza di oscillazione, prendendo in esame fluidi con diverse tensioni superficiali e viscosità, ha permesso il controllo del moto unidimensionale lungo il pianoinclinato. Inoltre, abbiamo studiato le morfologie interfacciali di gocce d’acqua confinate sulla faccia superiore idrofilica di post rettangolari con larghezza 0.5 mm e varie lunghezze. Per piccoli volumi, il film liquido prende la forma di un filamento omogeneo con una cross-section uniforme simile ad un segmento circolare. Per volumi più grandi, l’interfaccia acqua/aria forma un rigonfiamento centrale, che cresce con il volume. Nel caso di post più lunghi di una lunghezza caratteristica, la transizione tra le due forme al variare del volume discontinua e mostra la bistabilità dei due stati morfologici associata ad un fenomeno di isteresi. Applicando al post, con volume d’acqua fissato corrispondente alla bistabilità, vibrazioni verticali con determinate frequenze si più indurre una transizione irreversibile dallo stato di filamento omogeneo a quello rigonfiato. Particelle auto-propulse sotto confinamento geometrico. Il secondo argomento riguarda il comportamento di fluidi attivi, cioè sospensioni di colloidi auto-propulsi che costituiscono sistemi intrinsecamente fuori equilibrio (Materia Attiva). In particolare, in presenza di strutture geometriche, tali sistemi si comportano in modo molto differente rispetto a colloidi Browniani all’equilibrio. Abbiamo analizzato il ruolo di diversi schemi di motilità sulla distribuzione di concentrazione di sospensioni batteriche confinate tra due pareti solide. considerando E. coli a P. aeruginosa wild-type, che si muovono secondo gli schemi Run and Tumble e Run and Reverse, rispettivamente. I profili di concentrazione sono tati ottenuti contando i batteri motili a diverse distanze dalle pareti. In accordo con studi precedenti, si osservato un accumulo di batteri motili in prossimit delle pareti. Sono state testate diverse frazioni di batteri motili e diverse distanze di separazione tra le pareti, nel range tra 100μm e 250 μm. I profili di concentrazione risultano indipendenti dalla distanza tra le pareti e dai differenti schemi di motilità e scalano con la frazione di batteri motili. Questi risultati sono confermati da simulazioni numeriche, basate su una collezione di particelle allungate auto-propulse che interagiscono solo tramite interazioni steriche.

In this Study, the surface energy was investigated for six penetration grade 70/100 bitumen binders. Wilhelmy Plate and the Sessile Drop were used to determine the contact angles. The purpose of this study was to compare the Wilhelmy Plate method with the Sessile Drop method, and to compare the significance of Owens-Wendt model with the significance of Acid Base model by correlating surface energy components. Better R2 –values were found for surface energy components by using the Owens-Wendt model than by using the Acid Base model. It was concluded here that Owens-Wendt model is a better model for determining surface energy components of bituminous binders than the Acid Base model since bituminous binders have low energy surfaces. For both instruments: When using Diiodomethane as a probe liquid the biggest variations among the binders were observed. When using water as a probe liquid the least variations among the binders were observed. The advancing contact angles for water determined for these six bitumen binders using the Wilhelmy plate method do not exceed the 90 degree by much, suggesting that bitumen is not extremely hydrophobic. The Sessile Drop method offers a faster and more convenient way to measure the surface energy components of bitumen binders than the Wilhelmy Plate method.

La maîtrise de la fabrication de films de suspension colloïdale par évaporation constitueencore à ce jour, un véritable verrou scientifique pour l’élaboration des matériaux. Le séchage desuspensions colloïdales entraine souvent des défauts de surface et de volume dans le film. Lorsque lesparticules sont molles, les films sont continus mais présentent des défauts de plissement de surface.Lorsque les particules sont dures (latex vitreux, silice..), le film se fissure et se délamine. Ces défautssont souvent liés aux contraintes résiduelles dans le gel à la fin du séchage qui sont dues à la pressioncapillaire causée par la déformation des ménisques d’eau à la surface des films. Par contre on neconnait pas encore l’échelle de taille où agit la contrainte ni la relation entre la contrainte et la périodedes craquelures.Dans ce travail de thèse, nous étudions la morphologie des craquelures dans des films dedivers mélanges de suspensions colloïdales, élaborés par séchage. Ces mélanges sont composés departicules dures (polystyrène et PBMA réticulés) et molles (PBA et PBMA). La structurenanométrique de ces mélanges est caractérisée par diffusion de neutron et par turbidité. Nousdisposons de mélanges avec diverses structures et divers états de dispersion. Certains mélangescontiennent des particules dispersées à l’échelle nanométrique (l’ordre de grandeur est celle de la tailledes particules - 50 nm) alors que d’autres contiennent des particules agrégées. L’étude de lamorphologie des craquelures est réalisée sur des gouttes sessiles avec séchage à la surface libre. Descraquelures radiales périodiques sont observées lors du séchage. Nous observons que la période descraquelures augmente avec l’augmentation de la fraction en particules molles et de la température maistoute en conservent la périodicité. Nous avons mis en évidence que le rapport : période des craqueluressur l’épaisseur des films λ/h est le seul paramètre qui décrit parfaitement la morphologie descraquelures pour un séchage au niveau d’une surface libre. Nous avons aussi démontré que ce rapportλ/h ne peut pas descendre au-dessous de 2 même dans le cas de particules vitreuses. Le séchage induitde fortes contraintes résiduelles dans le gel qui permettent à certaines fibres situées entre deuxcraquelures de délaminer radialement. Ce phénomène de délamination s’estompe avec la dissipationdes contraintes. Nous avons démontré que le modèle mécanique de Russel ne permet pas de décrire lapériode de craquelures loin de la contrainte critique. Nous proposons ainsi dans le cadre de notretravail, un autre modèle plus à même à caractériser la périodicité de ces craquelures. Nous avonsremarqué que les propriétés du substrat n'ont aucune incidence sur la morphologie des craquelures. Letaux d'évaporation modifie la morphologie des craquelures, où dans le cas d’un séchage rapide, onobtient des fibres décollées longues unidirectionnelles tandis que pour le cas d’un séchage lent, onassiste à la formation de craquelures non décollées avec apparition de craquelures secondairestransverses<br>Controlling the production of colloidal suspension films by evaporation is still, nowadays, atruly scientific obstacle for materials development. The drying of colloidal suspensions leads often tosurface and volume defects in the film. When the particles are soft, films are continuous but haveseveral folding surface defects. However, when the particles are hard (glassy latex, silica,...), the filmtends to crack and to be delaminated. These defects are often associated with residual stresses in thegel at the end of drying, due to the capillary pressure caused by the water menisci deformation at thefilm surface. Nevertheless, neither the size scale where constraint acts nor the relation between stressand cracking time were known.In this thesis we present the study of cracks morphology observed in films of differentcolloidal suspension mixtures obtained by a drying process. These mixtures are composed of hard(polystyrene crosslinked PBMA) and soft (PBA and PBMA) particles. The nanometric structure ofthese mixtures is obtained through neutron scattering and turbidity studies. We have mixtures withdifferent structures and different states of dispersion. While some mixtures contain dispersed particlesat a nanoscale, with an order of magnitude same as the particles size - 50 nm, some others containaggregated particles. The study of cracks morphology is performed on sessile drops by drying at thefree surface. Periodic radial cracks are observed during drying. We also observe that cracks periodincrease with the increment of soft particles fraction and temperature, but keeping constant itsperiodicity. We have demonstrated that the ratio: crack period between film thickness, i.e. λ/h, is theonly parameter that describes perfectly cracks morphology for a drying process at a free surface. Wealso demonstrated that this relation (λ/h) couldn’t decrease below 2 even in the case of glassy particles.Drying process induces high residual stresses in the gel, allowing to some fibers located between twocracks to delaminate radially. This delamination phenomenon fades with dissipation constraints. Wehave also established that the Russel’s mechanical model does not describe the period of cracks nearthe critical stress. Therefore, in this work we propose another model able to characterize theperiodicity of the cracks. We noticed that the properties of the substrate did not affect cracksmorphology. The evaporation rate changes the morphology of cracks, which in the case of a quickdrying it is possible to obtain unidirectional long loose fibers. However, for a slow drying, we arewitnessing the formation of not protruding cracks with the apparition of secondary transverse cracks