Watching Ink Dry
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| Date | 22.02.2016 |
| Hour | 13:15 › 14:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Colin Bain, Durham University U.K. |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
‘Watching paint dry’ is an English metaphor for a tedious and pointless activity. You might think the same would be true of ink, but high speed imaging inside a drop from an inkjet printer shows remarkable complexity and unexpected physics. Understanding and controlling how inks dry is critical to the evolution of inkjet printing from high resolution graphics to a manufacturing technology, with applications in TV displays, electronic circuits, biosensors and 3D manufacturing.
This talk will describe some of our recent research on drying of simple solvent mixtures and show how the principles of colloid chemistry can be exploited to control the morphology of the dry deposit from an inkjet printer.
References:
“Control of Particle Distribution in Inkjet Printing through an Evaporation-Driven Sol–Gel Transition” Talbot, E. L.; Yang, L.; Berson, A.; Bain, C. D. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2014, 6, 9572–9583
“Printing Small Dots from Large Drops” Talbot, E. L.; Yow, H. N,; Yang, L.; Berson, A.; Biggs, S. R.; Bain, C. D. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2015, 7, 3782–3790
Bio: Colin Bain completed a BA in Natural Sciences in Cambridge, England, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry at Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. George Whitesides. He returned to the UK as a Royal Society Research Fellow in Cambridge before moving to Oxford as University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalen College in 1991. He has been a Professor of Chemistry at Durham University since 2005. From 2008–12 he was the Director (Science) at the Institute of Advanced Study. Since 2015 he has been Dean for Research at Durham University.
His research lies at the intersection of physical chemistry with physics, engineering and biology. While broadly in the field of ‘wet surface chemistry’, his interests range from the break-up of jets to drying of droplets on surfaces, from phase transitions to adsorption kinetics, from tertiary oil recovery to model cell membranes. Much of his work is collaborative within Durham (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics & Engineering), the UK (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, Nottingham, Leeds, Glasgow) and around the world (USA, India, Japan). He collaborates widely with industry in the UK, Sweden and Japan.
His research has been recognised by both national and international awards, including the Corday-Morgan Medal (2000), Tilden Prize (2008), Thomas Graham Lecturer (2011), Craig Lecturer (ANU, 2008), McBain Lecturer (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, 2005), Lectureship Award of the Japanese Chemical Society (2005) and Fellow of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy (2014). He served for 12 years on the Editorial Advisory Board of Langmuir and was a founding editor Soft Matter. He has published around 160 papers with >11,000 external citations and an h-index of 42.
This talk will describe some of our recent research on drying of simple solvent mixtures and show how the principles of colloid chemistry can be exploited to control the morphology of the dry deposit from an inkjet printer.
References:
“Control of Particle Distribution in Inkjet Printing through an Evaporation-Driven Sol–Gel Transition” Talbot, E. L.; Yang, L.; Berson, A.; Bain, C. D. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2014, 6, 9572–9583
“Printing Small Dots from Large Drops” Talbot, E. L.; Yow, H. N,; Yang, L.; Berson, A.; Biggs, S. R.; Bain, C. D. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2015, 7, 3782–3790
Bio: Colin Bain completed a BA in Natural Sciences in Cambridge, England, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry at Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. George Whitesides. He returned to the UK as a Royal Society Research Fellow in Cambridge before moving to Oxford as University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalen College in 1991. He has been a Professor of Chemistry at Durham University since 2005. From 2008–12 he was the Director (Science) at the Institute of Advanced Study. Since 2015 he has been Dean for Research at Durham University.
His research lies at the intersection of physical chemistry with physics, engineering and biology. While broadly in the field of ‘wet surface chemistry’, his interests range from the break-up of jets to drying of droplets on surfaces, from phase transitions to adsorption kinetics, from tertiary oil recovery to model cell membranes. Much of his work is collaborative within Durham (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics & Engineering), the UK (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, Nottingham, Leeds, Glasgow) and around the world (USA, India, Japan). He collaborates widely with industry in the UK, Sweden and Japan.
His research has been recognised by both national and international awards, including the Corday-Morgan Medal (2000), Tilden Prize (2008), Thomas Graham Lecturer (2011), Craig Lecturer (ANU, 2008), McBain Lecturer (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, 2005), Lectureship Award of the Japanese Chemical Society (2005) and Fellow of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy (2014). He served for 12 years on the Editorial Advisory Board of Langmuir and was a founding editor Soft Matter. He has published around 160 papers with >11,000 external citations and an h-index of 42.
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