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Structure Formation in Soft-Matter Solutions Induced by Solvent Evaporation

  • Jiajia Zhou
  • , Xingkun Man
  • , Ying Jiang
  • , Masao Doi*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Solvent evaporation in soft-matter solutions (solutions of colloidal particles, polymers, and their mixtures) is an important process in material making and in the printing and coating industries. The solvent-evaporation process determines the structure of materials and strongly affects their performance. Solvent evaporation involves many physicochemical processes: flow, diffusion, crystallization, gelation, glass transition, etc. and is quite complex. Here, recent progress in this important process is reported, with a special focus on theoretical and simulation studies.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1703769
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume29
Issue number45
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Dec 2017

Keywords

  • solvent evaporation
  • structure formation
  • thin-film processing

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