We visualize the drying of droplets of colloids suspended in a mixture of two miscible solvents, namely water and ethanol.
After a period of isotropic shrinkage, droplets suddenly buckle like elastic shells. For a fixed colloid solid fraction, the
buckling threshold evolves as a function of ethanol content, due to changes of the solvent mixture physical properties, such
as viscosity and evaporation rate. A simplified model predicting the qualitative behavior of the buckling threshold as a function
of the initial ethanol mass fraction has been developed that fits well experimental results.
PACS. 82.70.Kj Emulsions and suspensions - 47.56.+r Flows through porous media