Tag Archive for 'Droplet'

An artist’s depiction of the liquid-like layer of molecules repelling water droplets. Image credit: Ekaterina Osmekhina / Aalto University

Materials Scientists Create Most Water-Repellent Surface Ever

Oct 23, 2023 by News Staff

Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces are a new type of liquid-repellent surface that offer many technical benefits over traditional approaches. They have molecular...

Visualization of the motion of particles expelled from the mouth of the mannequin with inclination angles of 60° (a) and (b) and 120° (c) and (d); panels (a) and (c) display the average intensity of particle fluorescence, and panels (b) and (d) show the instantaneous particle distribution at three times; the white arrows mark the ejection direction of the particles; the nondimensional time interval in these figures corresponds to a physical time interval of 0.1 s. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.1063/5.0073880.

Study: Coughing Downward Can Reduce Spread of Cough-Generated Droplets

Jan 5, 2022 by News Staff

Dr. Hongping Wang and his colleagues from the State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics at the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences...

An image of a typical non-equilibrium state comprising active filaments, random filament networks and ordered 2D fluidic lattices, and active and self-propulsive electrohydrodynamically sculpted droplets and active emulsions. Image credit: Raju et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abh1642.

Researchers Use Electric Field to Create Polygonal and Toroidal Droplets, Liquid Lattices

Sep 15, 2021 by News Staff

When two substances are brought together, they will eventually settle into a steady state called the thermodynamic equilibrium. In new research, a team...