Convective particle assembly is a fast, scalable way to coat nanoparticles onto a substrate. It depends on evaporation of a fluid suspension that is drawn into a thin film. One may think that using a fluid that has higher evaporation rate should make this process better. Here, we show the flow complexities surrounding ethanol-water mixtures that result in an imbalance of surface energy that changes the way these suspensions flow.
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