French scientists have been watching paint drops dry and monitoring the resulting patterns in hopes of finding ways to better control the drying process to reduce cracks and other imperfections.

Drying Drops of Paint Suspension: From “Fried Eggs” to Quasi-Homogeneous Patterns. Langmuir , 2023; 39 (38): 13579 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01605 Cite This Page : ...

A resident drops off leftover paint at a PaintCare event. A resident picks out paint at a free PaintCare giveaway event. PaintCare will host more than a dozen paint drop-off events across Colorado to ...

As paint drops dry, they can look like a “fried egg” (left image, scale bar is one millimeter) or develop a more even pigment distribution (right image). view more Credit: Adapted from ...

PaintCare held 11 paint drop-off events across the state, welcoming more than 990 participants who dropped off leftover paint. PaintCare drop-off sites accept all paint brands, regardless of when or ...

PaintCare is putting on a one-day paint drop-off event for unused paint and limited amounts of paint, stain, and/or varnish for recycling, available to businesses and households. From 2-6 p.m. Sept.

Both pigment amount and the glass’s surface temperature impacted the size, shape and pattern of the dried paint drops. The researchers saw that drops with lower pigment concentrations or deposited on ...