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Microdrops Evaporating from Deformable or Soluble
Polymer Surfaces
Elmar Bonaccurso
a
,
c
,
Ramon Pericet-Camara
b
,
c
,
Hans-Jürgen Butt
c
a
Center of Smart Interfaces, Technical University of Darmstadt, Petersenstr. 32, 64287 Darmstadt,
Germany. E-mail: bonaccurso@csi.tu-darmstadt.de
b
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne,
Switzerland. E-mail: ramon.pericet@epfl.ch
c
Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
E-mail: butt@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
Keywords
Microdrop evaporation, surface tension, capillary pressure, Young's equation, polymer surface, elastic
solid, inkjet etching, solvent, swelling, diffusion, precipitation, three phase contact line, pinning, fluid
flow, skin formation
List of Abbreviations and Symbols
std. dev.: Standard deviation
dpi: Dots per inch
NPT: Normal pressure and temperature
RH: Relative humidity
AFM: Atomic force microscope
QCM: Quartz crystal microbalance
TPCL: Three phase contact line
CCR: Constant contact radius
CCA: Constant contact angle
SEM: Scanning electron microscope
PS: Polystyrene
PEMA: Polyethylmethacrylate
PVP: Polyvinylphenol
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