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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5302 - 5305 (1999)

Cooperative Evaporation in Ordered Arrays of Volatile Droplets

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C. Schäfle1, C. Bechinger1, B. Rinn1, C. David2, and P. Leiderer1
1Fakultät für Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
2Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland

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We study the evaporation behavior of regular arrays of volatile droplets on a solid substrate. We observe that under certain conditions the droplets do not evaporate independently of each other but in a cooperative manner. This results in the development of a superlattice which is explained in terms of matter exchange between adjacent droplets.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5302
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5302
PACS: 64.70.Fx, 05.70.Ln, 64.70.Rh

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