0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 h p 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 x/L 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 a b c FIG. 6: Profiles of the final dried-in nanoparticle layer for the dewetting of a suspension of nanoparticles in a volatile solvent that partially wets the substrate for (a) high ( Ω = 10 − $^{3}$), (b) medium ( Ω = 2 × 10 − $^{6}$) and (c) low ( Ω = 0 . 78 × 10 − $^{8}$) evaporation rates, for the case when χ = H/l$_{0}$ = 1 . 09 , the lateral length scale is ℓ = $^{√}$γ/κH with κ = ( S$_{p}$/l$_{0}$ ) exp( d$_{0}$/l$_{0}$ ) H being an energy scale related to wettability and the vertical length scale is H = $^{√}$2 S$_{LW}$ /κd$_{0}$ . The remaining dimensionless parameters are the evaporation number Ω = Q$_{e}$η$_{0}$ℓ $^{2}$/H$^{3}$, the diffusion number Γ = D (0) η$_{0}$/Hκ = 10 − 4 and the dimensionless chemical potential M = Hµ/κ = − 0 . 0035 . The system size is L = 19500 ℓ . Film thickness and h$_{p}$ in the plots are scaled by the precursor film thickness. circular throughout the dewetting and evaporation process. In this case one should interprete the coordinate x as the distance from the centre of the circular film. We start with a film of height h$_{0}$ of finite length sitting on a precursor film and assume that the film contains nanoparticles at constant concentration φ$_{0}$ . The chosen parameter values ensure that the film of thickness h$_{0}$ is linearly stable. As we do not incorporate noise, no nucleation of additional holes can occur (even with noise the probability would be extremely low). Without evaporation the film dewets ‘classically’ by a retraction of the initially step-like front. After a short time, surface tension smoothes the profile of the receding front and a capillary rim forms that collects all the 20