Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Droplets out of Equilibrium: A Perspective Review
arXiv:2005.03782
Abstract
Droplets abound in nature and technology. In general, they are multicomponent, and, when out of equilibrium, with gradients in concentration, implying flow and mass transport. Moreover, phase transitions can occur, with either evaporation, solidification, dissolution, or nucleation of a new phase. The droplets and their surrounding liquid can be binary, ternary, or contain even more components, and with several even in different phases. In the last two decades the rapid advances in experimental and numerical fluid dynamical techniques has enabled major progress in our understanding of the physicochemical hydrodynamics of such droplets, further narrowing the gap from fluid dynamics to chemical engineering and colloid & interfacial science and arriving at a quantitative understanding of multicomponent and multiphase droplet systems far from equilibrium, and aiming towards a one-to-one comparison between experiments and theory or numerics. This review will discuss various examples of the physicochemical hydrodynamics of droplet systems far from equilibrium and our present understanding of them. These include immiscible droplets in a concentration gradient, coalescence of droplets of different liquids, droplets in concentration gradients emerging from chemical reactions (including droplets as microswimmers) and phase transitions such as evaporation, solidification, dissolution, or nucleation, and droplets in ternary liquids, including solvent exchange, nano-precipitation, and the so-called ouzo effect. We will also discuss the relevance of the physicochemical hydrodynamics of such droplet systems for many important applications, including in chemical analysis and diagnostics, microanalysis, pharmaceutics, synthetic chemistry and biology, chemical and environmental engineering, the oil and remediation industries, inkjet-printing, for micro- and nano-materials, and in nanotechnolgoy.
arXiv comment38 pages, 7 figures with various panels
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