Hodges and Tangparitkul (Hodges, C. S.; Tangparitkul, S. M. Langmuir 2019, 35, doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01442) in their Comment on "Patterns in Drying Drops Dictated by Curvature Driven Particle Transport" argue that the coffee-eye deposits in dried pendant drops can also be formed if the particles or particle clusters in the drying drop are large enough to sediment during the course of evaporation. In our reply to this comment, we compare these two different mechanisms, namely, gravity settling and curvature-driven interfacial migration of particles in the drying particle-laden drops, with an aim towards placing them in a correct perspective. © 2019 American Chemical Society.

Sumesh P. Thampi

Department Of Chemical Engineering

Madivala Gurapa Basavaraja

P. Logesh Kumar

Drying

Particle separators

Different mechanisms

DRYING DROPS

GRAVITY SETTLING

Langmuirs

Particle clusters

PARTICLE TRANSPORT

PARTICLE-LADEN

PENDANT DROP

Drops

article

COFFEE

Evaporation

gravity

sediment

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Patterns generated by controlled evaporation of droplets containing colloids are dictated by internally generated flows. This advective particle transport is crucial to the efficacy of printing and coating processes and is also an elegant route to the self-assembly of particles. We propose a novel particle transport route, which involves adsorption of particles to the interface and subsequent curvature-driven migration of the particles along the interface. This interface-mediated transport can be exploited to control the distribution of particles in the dried patterns, which we experimentally elucidate by achieving gravity-induced drop shape changes. Our experiments demonstrate that the interplay between the bulk and the interfacial transport leads to strikingly different patterns: while dried aqueous sessile drops of colloidal dispersions produce well known "coffee-rings", dried pendant drops lead to "coffee-eyes". We support our experimental findings using scaling arguments. In previous studies, the effect of gravity-induced change in drop shape on the patterns formed in drying drops has been neglected. However, we show that the structure of the patterns formed by the colloidal particles after solvent evaporation is markedly different when the drops are deformed by gravity. © 2018 American Chemical Society.

Patterns in Drying Drops Dictated by Curvature-Driven Particle Transport

The adsorption of particles to the fluid-fluid interface is a key factor for the stabilization of fluid-fluid interfaces such as those found in emulsions, foams and bijels. However, for the formation of stable particle-laden interfaces, the particles must migrate to the interface from the bulk. Recent studies show that the adsorption of particles to the interface formed during emulsification is influenced by the surface charge of the particles. To further investigate this phenomenon, we study the effect of the surface charge of the particle on the adsorption kinetics of particles to the oil-water interface. By suspending a drop of aqueous dispersion of charge stabilized nanoparticles in decane, the adsorption dynamics of particles to the decane-water interface is studied using the dynamic surface tension measurements. When the particles are highly charged (low salt), a negligible change in the interface tension is observed indicating that almost no particles are adsorbed. These results show that the charged particles experience an energy barrier when they approach the interface. But when the particle surface charge is screened by the addition of monovalent salt, a significant reduction in surface tension is observed indicating the migration and adsorption of particles to the decane-water interface. We estimate the effective diffusivity of particles to the interface by analyzing the initial decay in the measured surface tension by considering particle laden drops containing different amounts of salt using the modified Ward and Tordai theory. This effective diffusivity is used to calculate the energy barrier for the adsorption of particles to the interface. The energy barrier from the analysis of dynamic surface tension data agrees well with the concept of image charge repulsion which inhibits the adsorption of highly charged particles to the interface. By considering various types of relevant interactions, we derive an analytical expression that qualitatively captures the effect of the surface charge on the equilibrium surface coverage of particles at the drop surface. © the Owner Societies 2016.

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