Drying paint: from micro-scale dynamics to mechanical instabilities

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2016.0161zbMATH Open1404.76026arXiv1610.05644OpenAlexW2533851673WikidataQ47902660 ScholiaQ47902660MaRDI QIDQ4560652FDOQ4560652

Pree-Cha Kiatkirakajorn, Joaquim Li, Lucas Goehring

Publication date: 12 December 2018

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Charged colloidal dispersions make up the basis of a broad range of industrial and commercial products, from paints to coatings and additives in cosmetics. During drying, an initially liquid dispersion of such particles is slowly concentrated into a solid, displaying a range of mechanical instabilities in response to highly variable internal pressures. Here we summarise the current appreciation of this process by pairing an advection-diffusion model of particle motion with a Poisson-Boltzmann cell model of inter-particle interactions, to predict the concentration gradients around a drying colloidal film. We then test these predictions with osmotic compression experiments on colloidal silica, and small-angle x-ray scattering experiments on silica dispersions drying in Hele-Shaw cells. Finally, we use the details of the microscopic physics at play in these dispersions to explore how two macroscopic mechanical instabilities -- shear-banding and fracture -- can be controlled.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05644

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zbMATH Keywords

fracturecolloidssolidificationshear bandsdryingsmall-angle X-ray scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Thin fluid films (76A20)

Cites Work

• Pressure and relative motion in colloidal suspensions
• Solidification of colloidal suspensions
• Morphological instability in freezing colloidal suspensions

Cited In (2)

• Characterization of a paint drying process through granulometric analysis of speckle dynamic patterns
• Patterning through instabilities in complex media: theory and applications

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