Drying kinetics of deformable and cracking nano-porous gels

• Published in: The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics Vol. 39; no. 12; pp. 117 - 14
• Main Authors: Thiery, J., Keita, E., Rodts, S., Courtier Murias, D., Kodger, T., Pegoraro, A., Coussot, P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Air flow; Aspect ratio; Biological and Medical Physics; Biophysics; Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Complex Systems; Condensed matter physics; Nanotechnology; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Polymer Sciences; Regular Article; Soft and Granular Matter; Surfaces and Interfaces; Thin Films; Soft Matter: Colloids and Nanoparticles

. The desiccation of porous materials encompasses a wide range of technological and industrial processes and is acutely sensitive to the hierarchical structure of the porous materials resulting in complex dynamics which are challenging to unravel. Macroscopic observations of the surface and geometry...