PMID- 21630693 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20111018 LR - 20110629 IS - 1520-5827 (Electronic) IS - 0743-7463 (Linking) VI - 27 IP - 13 DP - 2011 Jul 5 TI - Origin of buckling phenomenon during drying of micrometer-sized colloidal droplets. PG - 8404-14 LID - 10.1021/la200827n [doi] AB - The origin of the buckling of micrometer-sized colloidal droplets during evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) has been elucidated using electron microscopy and small-angle neutron scattering. Doughnut-like assembled grains with varying aspect ratios are formed during EISA at different physicochemical conditions. It has been revealed that this phenomenon is better explained by an existing hypothesis based on the formation of a viscoelastic shell of nanoparticles during drying than by other existing hypotheses based on the inertial instability of the initial droplets and hydrodynamic instability due to thermocapillary forces. This conclusion was further supported by the arrest of buckling through modification of the colloidal interaction in the initial dispersion. CI - (c) 2011 American Chemical Society FAU - Bahadur, J AU - Bahadur J AD - Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai-400085, India. jbahadur@barc.gov.in FAU - Sen, D AU - Sen D FAU - Mazumder, S AU - Mazumder S FAU - Bhattacharya, S AU - Bhattacharya S FAU - Frielinghaus, H AU - Frielinghaus H FAU - Goerigk, G AU - Goerigk G LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20110601 PL - United States TA - Langmuir JT - Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids JID - 9882736 EDAT- 2011/06/03 06:00 MHDA- 2011/06/03 06:01 CRDT- 2011/06/03 06:00 PHST- 2011/06/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/06/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/06/03 06:01 [medline] AID - 10.1021/la200827n [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Langmuir. 2011 Jul 5;27(13):8404-14. doi: 10.1021/la200827n. Epub 2011 Jun 1.