Richa Sharma, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC, 104 Roger Adams Lab, 600 South Mathews, urbana, IL 61801 and Michael Strano, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 66-366, Cambridge, MA 02139.
The hydrodynamic flow pattern in droplets evaporating were used to align, position and place anisotropic nanostructures like single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT). A potential flow model accurately describes and quantifies the statistical variation in the positioning of the nanostructures.