# gst: the transition from quiescent spherical cap states to self-piloted motile states of volatile droplets

<< When a volatile solvent droplet is deposited on a freely floating swellable sheet, it can spontaneously become lobed, asymmetric, and either spin, slide or move via a combination of the two. This process of symmetry-breaking is a consequence of the solvent droplet swelling the membrane and its inhomogeneous evaporation from the membrane, coupled with the hydrodynamics within the droplet. By tuning the membrane thickness and the droplet size, (AA) find a critical threshold that determines the transition from a quiescent spherical cap state to a self-piloted motile state. Simple scaling laws determine the angular and linear velocities of the droplets, and a 1D analog experiment confirms the relative roles of evaporation, swelling and viscoelastic dissipation.  >>

Aditi Chakrabarti, Gary P. T. Choi, L. Mahadevan. Spontaneous spin-sliding of volatile drops on swelling sheets. 

arXiv:1910.07064v1 [cond-mat.soft]. Oct 15, 2019

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07064   

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