Self-Arranged Levitating Droplet Clusters: A Reversible Transition from Hexagonal to Chain Structure

Alexander A. Fedorets, Mark Frenkel, Irina Legchenkova, Dmitry V. Shcherbakov, Leonid A. Dombrovsky, Michael Nosonovsky, Edward Bormashenko

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תקציר

Water microdroplets condense over locally heated water-vapor interfaces and levitate in an ascending vapor-air flow forming self-assembled ordered monolayer clusters. The droplets do not coalesce due to complex aerodynamic interactions between them. The droplet cluster formation is governed by the condensation/evaporation balance and by coupling of heat flux and vapor flow with aerodynamic forces. Here, we report the observations of a reversible structural transition from the ordered hexagonal-structure cluster to the chain-like structure and provide an explanation of its mechanism and conditions under which the transition occurs. The phenomenon provides new insights on the fundamental physical and chemical processes with microdroplets including their role in reaction catalysis in nature and their potential for aerosol and microfluidic applications.

שפה מקוריתאנגלית
עמודים (מ-עד)15330-15334
מספר עמודים5
כתב עתLangmuir
כרך35
מספר גיליון47
מזהי עצם דיגיטלי (DOIs)
סטטוס פרסוםפורסם - 26 נוב׳ 2019

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