IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v13y2022i1d10.1038_s41467-022-34219-3.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Optomechanical measurement of single nanodroplet evaporation with millisecond time-resolution

Author

Listed:
  • Samantha Sbarra

    (CNRS)

  • Louis Waquier

    (CNRS)

  • Stephan Suffit

    (CNRS)

  • Aristide Lemaître

    (CNRS)

  • Ivan Favero

    (CNRS)

Abstract

Tracking the evolution of an individual nanodroplet of liquid in real-time remains an outstanding challenge. Here a miniature optomechanical resonator detects a single nanodroplet landing on a surface and measures its subsequent evaporation down to a volume of twenty attoliters. The ultra-high mechanical frequency and sensitivity of the device enable a time resolution below the millisecond, sufficient to resolve the fast evaporation dynamics under ambient conditions. Using the device dual optical and mechanical capability, we determine the evaporation in the first ten milliseconds to occur at constant contact radius with a dynamics ruled by the mere Kelvin effect, producing evaporation despite a saturated surrounding gas. Over the following hundred of milliseconds, the droplet further shrinks while being accompanied by the spreading of an underlying puddle. In the final steady-state after evaporation, an extended thin liquid film is stabilized on the surface. Our optomechanical technique opens the unique possibility of monitoring all these stages in real-time.

Suggested Citation

  • Samantha Sbarra & Louis Waquier & Stephan Suffit & Aristide Lemaître & Ivan Favero, 2022. "Optomechanical measurement of single nanodroplet evaporation with millisecond time-resolution," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-7, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-34219-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34219-3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34219-3
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/s41467-022-34219-3?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jie Song & Qiang Li & Xiaofeng Wang & Jingyuan Li & Shuai Zhang & Jørgen Kjems & Flemming Besenbacher & Mingdong Dong, 2014. "Evidence of Stranski–Krastanov growth at the initial stage of atmospheric water condensation," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-8, December.
    2. Eric Sage & Ariel Brenac & Thomas Alava & Robert Morel & Cécilia Dupré & Mehmet Selim Hanay & Michael L. Roukes & Laurent Duraffourg & Christophe Masselon & Sébastien Hentz, 2015. "Neutral particle mass spectrometry with nanomechanical systems," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-5, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Momeni Dolatabadi, Amir & Moslehi, Jamshid & Saffari Pour, Mohsen & Mousavi Ajarostaghi, Seyed Soheil & Poncet, Sébastien & Arıcı, Müslüm, 2022. "Modified model of reduction condensing losses strategy into the wet steam flow considering efficient energy of steam turbine based on injection of nano-droplets," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 242(C).
    2. Sang Yup Lee & Minseong Kim & Tae Kyung Won & Seung Hyuk Back & Youngjoo Hong & Byeong-Su Kim & Dong June Ahn, 2022. "Janus regulation of ice growth by hyperbranched polyglycerols generating dynamic hydrogen bonding," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-10, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-34219-3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.