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Dip coating of bidisperse particulate suspensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2022

Deok-Hoon Jeong Open the ORCID record for Deok-Hoon Jeong [Opens in a new window] ,
Michael Ka Ho Lee ,
Virgile Thiévenaz Open the ORCID record for Virgile Thiévenaz [Opens in a new window] ,
Martin Z. Bazant Open the ORCID record for Martin Z. Bazant [Opens in a new window]  and
Alban Sauret Open the ORCID record for Alban Sauret [Opens in a new window]
Deok-Hoon Jeong
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Michael Ka Ho Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Virgile Thiévenaz
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Martin Z. Bazant
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Saint-Gobain Research North America, Northborough, MA 01532, USA
Alban Sauret*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

Dip coating consists of withdrawing a substrate from a bath to coat it with a thin liquid layer. This process is well understood for homogeneous fluids, but heterogeneities, such as particles dispersed in liquid, lead to more complex situations. Indeed, particles introduce a new length scale, their size, in addition to the thickness of the coating film. Recent studies have shown that, at first order, the thickness of the coating film for monodisperse particles can be captured by an effective capillary number based on the viscosity of the suspension, providing that the film is thicker than the particle diameter. However, suspensions involved in most practical applications are polydisperse, characterized by a wide range of particle sizes, introducing additional length scales. In this study, we investigate the dip coating of suspensions having a bimodal size distribution of particles. We show that the effective viscosity approach is still valid in the regime where the coating film is thicker than the diameter of the largest particles, although bidisperse suspensions are less viscous than monodisperse suspensions of the same solid fraction. We also characterize the intermediate regime that consists of a heterogeneous coating layer and where the composition of the film is different from the composition of the bath. A model to predict the probability of entraining the particles in the liquid film depending on their sizes is proposed and captures our measurements. In this regime, corresponding to a specific range of withdrawal velocities, capillarity filters the large particles out of the film.

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Interfacial Flows (free surface): Capillary flows Materials Processing Flows: Coating Complex Fluids: Suspensions
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 936 , 10 April 2022 , A36
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