Capillary evaporation (cavitation) has been suggested to be a possible source of long range interactions between mesoscopic hydrophobic surfaces. While evaporation is predicted by thermodynamics, little is known about its kinetics. Glauber dynamics Monte Carlo simulations of a lattice gas close to liquid-gas coexistence and confined between partially drying surfaces are used to model the effect...

We propose an explanation for the commonly-seen fading in the density of a stain remaining after a droplet has dried on a surface. The density decreases as a power p of the distance from the edge. For thin, dilute drops of general shape this power is determined by a flow stagnation point in the distant interior of the drop. The power p depends on the local evaporation rate J(0) at the stagnatio...

AIM To evaluate the efficacy of different solvent evaporation strategies on bonding of one-step self-etch adhesives to root canal dentine. METHODOLOGY Two dual-cure resin core systems (Clearfil DC Bond/Clearfil DC Core Automix and Clearfil Tri-S Bond Plus/Clearfil DC Core Plus; Kuraray Noritake Dental, Tokyo, Japan) were equally applied in 24 post spaces from extracted human mandibular premol...

Single Crystals of L-lysine sulphate (abbreviated as LLS), a semiorganic nonlinear (NLO) materials have been successfully grown by slow solvent evaporation solution growth technique at room temperature. Solubility curve of LLS has been determined in mixed solvent of acetone and water. The grown crystal is characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spe...

A drop of solution containing nonvolatile solute is allowed to evaporate from a sphere-on-flat geometry. Left behind is a striking pattern of gradient concentric rings with unprecedented regularity. The center-to-center distance between adjacent rings, lambda(C-C), and the height of the ring, h(d), are strongly affected by the concentration of the solution and the properties of the solvent. The...

Cheap, abundant but seldom-employed Ca(OH)2 was found to be an excellent low-loading (5-10 mol%) catalyst for Claisen-Schmidt condensation of aldehydes with methyl ketones under mild conditions. It was interesting that dilute aqueous ethanol (20 v/v%) was unexpectedly discovered to be the optimal solvent. The reaction was scalable at least to 100 mmol and calcium could be precipitated by CO2 an...

The petroleum ether (60-80o), chloroform methanol extracts of leaves and root bark of ficus glomerata (Moraceae) were prepared by successive solvent extraction followed by vacuum evaporation and the marc left after successive solvent extraction was extracts with boiling water to get aqueous extracts, all the extracts were subjected to qualitative chemical tests to find out phytoconstituents pre...

A new third order nonlinear optical single crystal of 2-phenylbenzimidazolium-ptoulenesulphonate (PBITS) was grown by the solvent evaporation technique using methanol as a solvent. The single crystal XRD analysis reveals that crystals belong to the triclinic system. An NMR and FTIR study confirms the formation and vibrational analysis present in the compound. UV-Vis absorption studies were also...

PURPOSE The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of crystal habit on the dissolution and in vitro antibacterial and anitiprotozoal activity of sulfadimidine:4-aminosalicylic acid cocrystals. METHODS Cocrystals were produced via milling or solvent mediated processes. In vitro dissolution was carried out in the flow-through apparatus, with shadowgraph imaging and mechanistic mathemati...

The quality, size, and number of protein crystals grown under conditions of continuous solvent extraction are dependent on the rate of solvent extraction and the initial protein and salt concentration. An increase in the rate of solvent extraction leads to a larger number of crystals. The number of crystals decreases, however, when the experiment is started with an initial protein concentration...