https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/e2007-00037-6
Regular Articles
Segregation in desiccated sessile drops of biological fluids
Astrakhan State University, 20a Tatishchev St., Astrakhan, 414056, Russia
* e-mail: tarasevich@aspu.ru
Received:
20
September
2006
Published online:
13
April
2007
It is shown here that concurrence between advection and diffusion in a drying sessile drop of a biological fluid can produce spatial redistribution of albumen and salt. The result gives an explanation for the patterns observed in the dried drops of the biological fluids.
PACS: 47.57.-s Complex fluids and colloidal systems – / 47.55.nb Capillary and thermocapillary flows – / 66.10.Cb Diffusion and thermal diffusion –
© EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag, 2007
