Contactless transport of sessile droplets
Zhi Wu Jiang, Rui Chen, Tao Wu, Hang Ding, Er Qiang Li
Abstract
Contactless droplet transport has gained intensive attention in recent years. In this study, the motion of a sessile binary droplet or a pure water droplet under the contactless Marangoni effect has been investigated experimentally and theoretically. The concrete form of the driving force originates from the evaporation of a pure liquid “source” droplet was achieved and verified by our experimental data. For a “target” droplet consisting of pure water, we discovered a non-negligible increase in its spreading radius R during motion. Based on the experimental results, we proposed a linear approximation between R and the droplet spacing and successfully introduced its influence on the driving force calculation through the perturbation theory.