# gst: apropos of evaporation, puncturing of active drops

<< By virtue of self-propulsion, active particles impart intricate stresses to the background fluids. (..) this active stress can be utilized to greatly control evaporation dynamics of active drops. >>

AA << discover a new phenomenon of puncturing of the active drops, where the air-liquid interface of the drop undergoes spontaneous tearing and there occurs a formation of a new three-phase contact line due to the liquid-air interface hitting the liquid-solid interface through evaporation-driven mass loss. Post puncturing, (AA) see an inside-out evaporation of the drop, where the new contact line sweeps towards the pinned outer contact line of the drops, contrasting regular drops that straightaway shrink to zero volume with self-similar shape. >>

<< Furthermore, (..) the activity inside the drops can manipulate the three-phase contact-line dynamics, which for contractile drops can result in an up to 50% enhanced lifetime of the drop and 33% quicker evaporation for extensile drops. By analyzing the flux distribution inside the drop, (AA) gain insights on nonintuitive deposition patterns (e.g., ring galaxy type deposits that demonstrate controllable spatial gradients in the concentrations of the deposited particles) of active particles, which are oftentimes biological substances or bimetallic nanoparticles of interest. >>

Ghansham Rajendrasingh Chandel, Vishal Sankar Sivasankar, Siddhartha Das. Evaporation of active drops: Puncturing drops and particle deposits of ring galaxy patterns. Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 033603. Mar 27, 2024. 

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.033603

Also: drop, particle, evaporation, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, drop, particle, evaporation, transition, drop interactions, droplet, droploid

# gst: multi-component droplets may exhibit self-lubricating effects

<< Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in the study of multicomponent drops. These drops exhibit unique phenomena, as the interplay between hydrodynamics and the evolving physicochemical properties of the mixture gives rise to distinct and often unregulated behaviors. >>

<< Of particular interest is the complex dynamic behavior of the drop contact line, which can display self-lubrication effect. The presence of a slipping contact line in self-lubricating multicomponent drops can suppress the coffee-stain effect, conferring valuable technological applications. >>

Huanshu Tan, Detlef Lohse, Xuehua Zhang. Self-Lubricating Drops. arXiv: 2403.01207v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Mar 2, 2024

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01207

Also: drop droplet droploid, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: drop, droplet, droploid, multicomponent drops, drop contact line, self-lubrication

# gst: when volatile droplets dance across a surface erratically (along random trajectories)

<< When a drop of a volatile liquid is deposited on a uniformly heated wettable, thermally conducting substrate, one expects to see it spread into a thin film and evaporate. >>️

<< Contrary to this intuition, due to thermal Marangoni contraction, the deposited drop contracts into a spherical-cap-shaped puddle, with a finite apparent contact angle. Strikingly, this contracted droplet, above a threshold temperature, well below the boiling point of the liquid, starts to spontaneously move on the substrate in an apparently erratic way. >>️

Pallav Kant, Mathieu Souzy, et al. Autothermotaxis of volatile drops. Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, L012001. Jan 31, 2024. 

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.L012001

Rachel Berkowitz. Hot Surfaces Make Droplets Move Erratically. Physics 17, s14. Jan 31, 2024. 

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/s14 

Also: drop, bubble, erratic

in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, drop, bubble, erratic, thermotaxis, autothermotaxis

# gst: droplets scoot like caterpillars.

<< From swells in an ocean to ripples in a puddle, the shearing effect of wind blowing over a liquid is visible at all scales. This shear determines the interactions between Earth’s atmosphere and its surface water and, researchers now explain, the movement of liquid droplets that crawl up and down the window of a moving car in the rain. In a series of experiments, (AA) show that airflow triggers surface waves that cause such droplets to crawl like caterpillars before they break apart. >>️

<< At first, the airflow across the droplet’s surface caused the droplet to extend into an oval shape. The droplet also began to tilt, with the liquid piling up at the droplet’s downwind edge. When the drag force exerted by the airflow overcame the capillary force between the glycerin and the glass, the droplet began to slide and to stretch out even more. Surface waves then developed on the elongated droplet and traveled toward its leading edge. The waves induced a stable caterpillar-like motion, with the droplet stretching and contracting along its length. Eventually, beyond a threshold length that depended on the droplet’s volume, the caterpillar was no longer able to withstand the shearing force and broke into several droplets. >>️

AA << say that the behavior follows the same pattern as that of an elongated droplet sliding along an incline. >>

️

Rachel Berkowitz. Droplets Scoot Like Caterpillars. Physics 16, s110. Sep 1, 2023.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/s110  

A. Chahine, J. Sebilleau, R. Mathis, D. Legendre. Caterpillar like motion of droplet in a shear flow. Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 093601. Sep 1, 2023.

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.093601

Also: drop, bubble, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, droploid, bubble, transition

# gst: analogy between quasi-2D and 3D liquid drops.

<< Liquid drops are everywhere around us and important in numerous technological applications. Here, (AA) demonstrate a quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) analogy to the regular, often close to axisymmetric, three-dimensional (3D) drops. >>️

<< The Q2D drops are created by confining liquids between vertical walls, leading to formation of low aspect ratio capillary bridges that are deformed by gravity. When stationary, the Q2D drops adopt projected shapes that are analogous to 3D sessile drops, ranging from circular drops to puddles. >>️

<< When moving, the Q2D drops exhibit capillary and fluid mechanical behaviours analogous to 3D drops, including impacts and sliding on pseudo-surfaces. The Q2D drops also exhibit considerably more complex phenomena such as levitation, instabilities and pattern formation when subjected to external electric, magnetic and flow fields -- all seen also in regular 3D drops. >>️

<< 3D-Q2D analogy suggests that the diverse and often complicated phenomena observed in 3D drops can be studied in the Q2D geometry, >>

️

Tytti Kärki, Into Pääkkönen, et al. Quasi-Two-Dimensional Drops. arXiv: 2401.11845v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Jan 22, 2024.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11845

Also: drop, analogy, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, droploid, analogy

# gst: compression and fracture of ordered and disordered droplet rafts

AA << simulate a two-dimensional array of droplets being compressed between two walls. The droplets are adhesive due to an attractive depletion force. As one wall moves toward the other, the droplet array is compressed and eventually induced to rearrange. The rearrangement occurs via a fracture, where depletion bonds are quickly broken between a subset of droplets. >>

<< For monodisperse, hexagonally ordered droplet arrays, this fracture is preceded by a maximum force exerted on the walls, which drops rapidly after the fracture occurs. >>

<< In small droplet arrays a fracture is a single well-defined event, but for larger droplet arrays, competing fractures can be observed. These are fractures nucleated nearly simultaneously in different locations. >>

AA << also study the compression of bidisperse droplet arrays. The addition of a second droplet size further disrupts fracture events, showing differences between ideal crystalline arrays, crystalline arrays with a small number of defects, and fully amorphous arrays. >>

️

Pablo Eduardo Illing, Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, et al. Compression and fracture of ordered and disordered droplet rafts. Phys. Rev. E 109, 014610. Jan 17, 2024.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.014610

Also: drop, defect, fracture, crack, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Also:  raft   https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=raft  

zattera (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/04/1864-onda-di-liberazione.html  

randa (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=randa

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, raft, defect, fracture, crack

# gst: dynamics and interactions of multiple bright droplets and bubbles, and interactions of kinks with droplets and with antikinks.

<< Droplets bearing different chemical potentials experience mass-exchange phenomena. Individual bubbles exhibit core expansion and mutual attraction prior to their destabilization. Droplets interacting with kinks are absorbed by them, a process accompanied by the emission of dispersive shock waves and gray solitons. Kink-antikink interactions are repulsive, generating counter-propagating shock waves. >> 

 

G. C. Katsimiga, S. I. Mistakidis, et al. Interactions and dynamics of one-dimensional droplets, bubbles and kinks. arXiv: 2306.07055v2 [cond-mat.quant-gas]. Jul 26, 2023.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07055

Also: drop, bubble, waves, soliton, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, drop, bubble, kink, wave, soliton, homoclinic orbits

# gst: myriad of complex dynamics from the atomization of acoustically levitated droplets

AA << report the dynamics of a droplet levitated in a single-axis acoustic levitator. The deformation and atomization behavior of the droplet in the acoustic field exhibits a myriad of complex phenomena, in sequences of steps. These include the primary breakup of the droplet through stable levitation, deformation, sheet formation, and equatorial atomization, followed by secondary breakup which could be umbrella breakup, bag breakup, bubble breakup or multistage breakup depending on the initial size of the droplet. >>

<< Both the primary and the secondary breakup of the droplet admit interfacial instabilities such as Faraday instability, Kelvin Helmholtz (KH) instability, RT instability, and RP instability and are well described with visual evidence. >>️

Sunil K. Saroj, Rochish M. Thaokar. Atomisation of an acoustically levitated droplet: Experimental observations of a myriad of complex phenomenon. arXiv: 2307.00400v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Jul 1, 2023.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00400

Also:  drop, transition, instability in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, transition, instability

# gst: nonmonotonic appearance- disappearance behaviors of two unequal-sized miscible liquid drops

<< the coalescence process of two miscible liquid drops exhibits a nonmonotonic behavior of partial coalescence from appearance to disappearance and then reappearance with decreasing surface tension ratio. The strong lifting force of the intense Marangoni flow causes the reappearance of partial coalescence at higher surface tension difference between two drops. When the Ohnesorge number increases, high viscous forces restrict the propagation of Marangoni flow and do not favor the pinch-off, even in the presence of a significant surface tension difference. The generation of secondary drops at a considerable surface tension difference is also prevented for small parent drop size ratio. >>️

Swati Singh, Arun K. Saha. Effect of surface tension gradients on coalescence dynamics of two unequal-sized drops. Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 053604. May 24, 2023. 

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.053604

Also:  'drop' in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html  

Keywords: gst, behavior, drop, drop breakup, drop coalescence, drop interactions, droplet, droploid

# gst: apropos of transitions, droplet trajectories during single and collective bursting bubbles

<< Mechanisms of droplet production from bursting bubbles have been extensively studied for single bubbles, but remain sparsely investigated in more complex collective settings. >>️

<< In the collective bubbling experiment, subsurface quasimonodisperse bubbles are rising up to the surface where, depending on the surfactant concentration, they can either merge or assemble in rafts of monodisperse bubbles. Drop trajectories are recorded, analyzed, and shown to exhibit uniquely distinctive features for the different production mechanisms: centrifuge film drops are ejected sideways, and jet drops are ejected vertically. Different single-burst scalings are finally compared to the experimental size-velocity relationships, and reveal that drops coming from collective bubble bursting appear slower and more scattered than when coming from single bursting bubbles. >>️

B. Neel and L. Deike. Velocity and size quantification of drops in single and collective bursting bubbles experiments. Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 103603. Oct 5, 2022. 

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.103603

Also: 'when a superbubble can generate trains of shock waves'. Mar 6, 2019.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2019/03/gst-astro-when-superbubble-can-generate.html

Also: 'transition', 'droplet', 'droploid', 'bubble', in: https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, transition, drop, droplet, droploid, bubble, collective dynamics,  fluid dynamics

PS: << they can either merge or assemble in rafts of monodisperse bubbles >> ; this is poetry, without unnecessary adjectives, anzicheforse ... FonT. Wed June 14, 2023 16:58 (cest)

# gst: to find a separation between plunging and spilling wave breakers

<< While understanding breaking waves is crucial for the development of parametrizations used in ocean wave modeling for both deep and shallow water, the complete process of wave breaking is not well understood. Here (AA) present direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional solitary waves that shoal and break on a uniform beach in shallow water, with the presence of storm surge represented by an inshore region. >>️

They << classify wave breaker types and find a separation between plunging and spilling breakers when scaled by breaking amplitude and depth. (AA) compare energy dissipation during the breaking process with results from the literature without storm surge.  >>️

They << conclude that a previously developed shallow-water inertial dissipation model for wave breaking on a uniform slope can be extended to this storm surge environment with good data collapse, and further discuss possibilities for a general parametrization of wave breaking valid across different depth regimes. >>️

Hunter Boswell, Guirong Yan, Wouter Mostert. Characterizing energy dissipation of shallow-water wave breaking in a storm surge. Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 054801. May 5, 2023. 

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.054801

Also: waves, soliton, drop, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, waves, soliton, drop 

# gst: when droplets are capable of self-propulsion as if they were surfing on a self-generated wave.

<< active droplets can move autonomously or oscillate between confining walls (..). Those behaviors could provide a clue about how life emerged from inanimate material. >>️

<< in the past decades, it has become clear that weak physical interactions among biomolecules are a crucial part of the answer. Such interactions allow some molecules to stay together transiently while avoiding others, which can lead to the spontaneous formation of droplets whose composition differs from their surroundings. Although biochemist Alexander Oparin suggested such ideas a century ago (..), experimental corroboration arrived only recently >>️

<< The key contribution of Demarchi and his collaborators is to demonstrate that droplet drift can enhance the heterogeneity of substrate and product. The resulting positive feedback allows droplets to move continuously as if they were surfing on a self-generated wave. >>️

David Zwicker. Droplets Come to Life. Physics 16, 45. Mar 20, 2023. 

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/45

AA << find that condensates move toward the center of a confining domain when this feedback is weak. Above a feedback threshold, they exhibit self-propulsion, leading to oscillatory dynamics. Moreover, catalysis-driven enzyme fluxes can lead to interrupted coarsening, resulting in equidistant condensate positioning, and to condensate division. >>

️

Leonardo Demarchi, Andriy Goychuk, et al. Enzyme-Enriched Condensates Show Self-Propulsion, Positioning, and Coexistence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128401. Mar 20, 2023.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.128401

Also

'drop', 'droplet', 'droploid', 'transition' in 

https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, waves, transition, liquid-liquid phase transition, nonequilibrium systems

# gst: when a soliton juggles ('catches' and 'throws') droplets

<< Jugglers normally work with solid objects, but a research team has now demonstrated a system that juggles liquid drops. (AA)  have previously shown that liquid drops can bounce in place above the surface of the same liquid—or bounce while moving across the surface—if the container is continuously vibrated (..) In these past experiments, the surface was nearly flat, except for waves generated by the bouncing drop. In the new work by undergraduate student Camila Sandivari of the University of Chile and her colleagues, the vibrations cause the liquid surface to form a large standing wave that actively “catches” and “throws” the drop during each cycle of its oscillation. The trapping of the drop is similar in principle to other types of wave traps, such as laser-based optical tweezers, and the system could potentially lead to new types of traps for larger objects. >>

AA << placed water mixed with a dye and a surface-tension-reducing agent in a 20-cm-long, 2.6-cm-wide basin that supports an unusual type of surface wave when the basin is vibrated in a specific frequency range. In this wave, rather than a series of oscillating peaks and valleys, there is only a single standing wave peak, called a soliton. However, this peak doesn’t oscillate uniformly across the basin’s short dimension (the width). A peak appears at one of the long walls coincident with a valley at the opposite wall, and then the peak and the valley switch places moments later, keeping a relatively flat “node” line along the central long axis of the basin. >>

AA << used a pipette to place a few-millimeter-wide drop of the same fluid just above the oscillating soliton, close to one of the long walls, and found that drops could be juggled for up to 90 minutes. The team attributes this unusual stability in part to a property of the soliton: if the drop wanders off-center, the oscillating surface wave pulls it back toward its center, similar to the way the laser field in optical tweezers is able to stably hold a small particle at its center. >>

David Ehrenstein. Juggling Water Drops. Physics 16, 21. Feb 10, 2023. 

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/21

Also

keyword 'drop' | 'droplet' | 'droploids' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=drop

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droplet

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droploids

keyword 'goccia' in Notes 

(quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=goccia

keyword 'solitons' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=soliton

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=solitons

Keywords: gst, solitons, drop, droplet, droploids, goccia

# gst: apropos of modulational instabilities, the case of vortex-ring quantum droplets in a radially-periodic potential.

FIG. 11: (Color online) Typical examples of stable nested patterns with soliton and vortex QDs (quantum droplets)  which were created in adjacent radial troughs. In panels (a1-b4) the pattern was created from the initial dynamical states with parameters (N,S,On) = (46,0,2) and (N,S,On) = (35,1,1) in the outer and inner troughs, respectively. In panels (c1-d4) the input was taken with parameter sets (N,S,On) = (120,1,3) and (N,S,On) = (46,0,2) in the outer and inner troughs.

AA << establish stability and characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) vortex ring-shaped quantum droplets (QDs) formed by binary Bose-Einstein condensates. >>️

<< another noteworthy option is to construct a two-ring complex in which one vortex-ring component is subject to the MI  (modulational instability), hence it is replaced by an azimuthal soliton (or maybe several solitons), (..), while the vortex component trapped in another potential trough avoids the azimuthal MI and remains essentially axisymmetric. >>️

<< Examples of such heterogeneous robust states, produced by simulations of Eq. (3), are displayed in Fig. 11. Panels 11(a1-b4) show a complex in which the MI takes place in the outer circular trough, producing an azimuthal soliton which performs rotary motion, while the inner vortex ring is  modulationally stable. An opposite example is produced in Figs. 11(c1-d4), where the outer vortex ring remains stable against azimuthal perturbations, while the MI creates a soliton exhibiting the rotary motion in the embedded (inner) circular trough. The rotation direction of the soliton is driven by the vorticity sign of the underlying QD (quantum droplet). It is relevant to mention that the multi-ring potential considered here holds different vortex-ring or azimuthal-soliton states nearly isolating them from each other. (..) An additional problem, which is left for subsequent analysis, is interplay between adjacent radial modes in the case when the separation between the adjacent rings is essentially smaller. >>️

Bin Liu, Yi xi Chen, et al. Vortex-ring quantum droplets in a radially-periodic potential. arXiv: 2212.05838v1 [nlin.PS]. Dec 12, 2022.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05838

Also

keyword 'drop' | 'droplet' | 'droploids' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=drop

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droplet

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droploids

keyword 'goccia' in Notes 

(quasi-stochastic poetry): 

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=goccia

keyword 'instability' | 'instabilities' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=instability

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=instabilities

keyword 'instabile' in Notes 

(quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=instabile

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, vortex, vortices, vortexes, vorticity, instability,  modulational instabilities

# gst: apropos of transitions, the transition from sticking to slipping.

<< From hydrogels and plastics to liquid crystals, soft solids cover a wide array of synthetic and biological materials that play key enabling roles in advanced technologies >>️

<< Attempts to study the interactions between soft solids and liquids have largely focused on the wetting of soft solids and its resulting deformation at equilibrium or in a quasi-static state. Here, (AA) consider the frequently encountered case of unsteady wetting of a liquid on a soft solid and show that transient deformation of the solid is necessary to understand unsteady wetting behaviours. >>️

AA << find that the initial spreading of the liquid occurs uninterrupted in the absence of solid deformation. This is followed by intermittent spreading, in which transient deformation of the solid at the three-phase contact line (CL) causes the CL motion to alternate alternation between CL sticking and slipping. (They) identify the spreading rate of liquids and the viscoelastic reacting rate of soft solids as the two competing factors in dictating intermittent spreading. (They)  formulate and validate experimentally the conditions required for the contact line to transition from sticking to slipping. By considering the growing deformation of soft solids as dynamic surface heterogeneities, (AA) proposed conditions for stick-slip transition in unsteady wetting on soft solids broaden the classical theory on wetting hysteresis on rigid solids. >>️

Surjyasish Mitra, Quoc Vo, Marcus Lin, Tuan Tran. Unsteady wetting of soft solids. arXiv:2211.07043v1 [cond-mat.soft]. Nov 13, 2022.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07043

Also

keyword 'drop' | 'droplet' | 'droploids' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=drop

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droplet

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droploids

keyword 'goccia' in Notes 

(quasi-stochastic poetry) 

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=goccia

Keywords: gst, behav, behaviour, transition, soft solids, drop, droplet, sticking, slipping.

# gst: apropos of transitions, two aspects of intermittency

<< intermittency produces significant probability of rare events that may locally accelerate the collision rates by a large factor in comparison with estimates using typical events. >>

<< Increasing intermittency of turbulence destroys the theory not via stronger bursts, but rather via increase of characteristic sizes of regions of calm and quiescent flow. ([AA️] remind that these two aspects of intermittency go together: increase of regions of calm flow and at the same time increased probability of strong bursts ([8] U. Frisch, Turbulence: The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995).). >>

Itzhak Fouxon, Seulgi Lee, Changhoon Lee. Intermittency and collisions of fast sedimenting droplets in turbulence.  arXiv:2205.06972v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. May 14, 2022. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06972

Also

keyword 'intermittency' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=intermittency

keyword 'intermittenza|e' | 'intermittente|i' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=intermittenza

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=intermittenze

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=intermittente

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=intermittenti

Keywords: gst, intermittency, collision, drop, droplet, turbulence

# life: apropos of transitions, a leap from chemistry to biology, the hypothesis of self-assembling droplets, the 'droplet world'.

AA << identify conditions suitable for concurrent peptide generation and self-assembly, and (..) show how a proliferating peptide-based droplet could be created by using synthesised amino acid thioesters as prebiotic monomers. Oligopeptides generated from the monomers spontaneously formed droplets through liquid–liquid phase separation in water. The droplets underwent a steady growth–division cycle by periodic addition of monomers through autocatalytic self-reproduction. Heterogeneous enrichment of RNA and lipids within droplets enabled RNA to protect the droplet from dissolution by lipids. >>

Matsuo, M., Kurihara, K. Proliferating coacervate droplets as the missing link between chemistry and biology in the origins of life. Nat Commun 12, 5487. doi: 10.1038/ s41467-021-25530-6. Sep 24,  2021.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25530-6

<< By constructing peptide droplets that proliferate with feeding on novel amino acid derivatives, we have experimentally elucidated the long-standing mystery of how prebiotic ancestors were able to proliferate and survive by selectively concentrating prebiotic chemicals, (..) Rather than an RNA world, we found that 'droplet world' may be a more accurate description, as our results suggest that droplets became evolvable molecular aggregates—one of which became our common ancestor. >> Muneyuki Matsuo.

Answering a century-old question on the origins of life. Hiroshima University. Sep 27, 2021. 

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-century-old-life.html

Also

keyword 'drop' | 'droplet' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=drop

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droplet

keyword 'transition' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=transition

keyword 'transizione' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry): 

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=transizione

keywords: life, originsoflife, transitions, drop, droplet

# gst: apropos of weird transitions: from non-equilibrium conditions square droplets and liquid lattices can emerge.

<< Spontaneous emergence of organized states in materials driven by non-equilibrium conditions is of notable fundamental and technological interest. In many cases, the states are complex, and their emergence is challenging to predict. Here, (AA) show that an unexpectedly diverse collection of dissipative organized states emerges in a simple system of two liquids under planar confinement when driven by electrohydrodynamic shearing.

At low shearing, a symmetry breaking at the liquid-liquid interface leads to a one-dimensional corrugation pattern. 

At slightly stronger shearing, topological changes give raise to the emergence of Quincke rolling filaments, filament networks, and two-dimensional bicontinuous fluidic lattices. 

At strong shearing, the system transitions into dissipating polygonal, toroidal, and active droplets that form dilute gas-like states at low densities and complex active emulsions at higher densities. >>

Geet Raju, Nikos Kyriakopoulos, Jaakko V. I. Timonen. Diversity of non-equilibrium patterns and emergence of activity in confined electrohydrodynamically driven liquids. Science  Advances. Vol 7, Issue 38. doi: 10.1126/ sciadv.abh1642. 15 Sep 15, 2021.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh1642

<< Things in equilibrium tend to be quite boring, (..) It's fascinating to drive systems out of equilibrium and see if the non-equilibrium structures can be controlled or be useful. Biological life itself is a good example of truly complex behavior in a bunch of molecules that are out of thermodynamic equilibrium. >>  Jaakko Timonen.

Physicists make square droplets and liquid lattices. Aalto University. Sep 15, 2021. 

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-physicists-square-droplets-liquid-lattices.html

Also

keyword 'drop' | 'droplet' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=drop

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droplet

keyword 'goccia' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry): 

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=goccia

keywords: gst, drop, droplet, lattice, transition, out of equilibrium.

# gst: apropos of unexpected thresholds, the minimum temperature for levitating a droplet

<< During the Leidenfrost effect, a thin insulating vapor layer separates an evaporating liquid from a hot solid. (AA) demonstrate that Leidenfrost vapor layers can be sustained at much lower temperatures than those required for formation. >>

<< the explosive failure point is nearly independent of material and fluid properties, suggesting a purely hydrodynamic mechanism determines this threshold. >>️

Dana Harvey, Joshua Mendez Harper, Justin C. Burton. Minimum Leidenfrost Temperature on Smooth Surfaces. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 104501. Sep 1, 2021.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.104501

Christopher Crockett. The Minimum Temperature for Levitating Droplets. Physics 14, s107. Sep 1, 2021.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/s107

Also

keyword 'drop' | 'droplet' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=drop

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droplet

keywords: gst, drop, droplet, waves, buckling, lubrication, convection, interfacial flows, threshold, levitation, bubble.

# gst: apropos of transitions, when a liquid droplet takes a turn (as a swimming behavior of amoebas)

Masatoshi Ichikawa and coll.  << have analyzed the conditions that cause self-propelling droplets to take linear or curved trajectories. The team studied water droplets between 60 and 800 μm across as they moved through oil that contained a surfactant. The droplets moved as a result of the Marangoni effect, in which an unequal distribution of surfactant molecules on the surface of each droplet creates a surface-tension gradient. (They) found that larger droplets tended to follow more tightly curved paths than smaller droplets. To understand the cause of this difference, Ichikawa and coll.  created a 3D model describing the concentration of surfactant on the surface of the droplets. They also studied the droplets’ internal flow, by observing the paths of small tracer particles. They characterized this flow as the sum of multiple patterns of fluid motion present in each droplet, including radial, dipolar, and quadrupolar motion. These patterns of motion were determined by the surface-tension gradients created by the uneven surfactant distribution on each droplet. In turn, such patterns controlled how the droplets moved. In particular, the team found that the angular difference between the dipolar and quadrupolar flows within droplets was strongly correlated with more curved droplet trajectories. In larger droplets, this angle changed more easily, causing the tightly curved trajectories. The researchers say that this fundamental mechanism may also influence the swimming behavior of amoebas.  >>️

Sophia Chen. When Liquid Droplets Take a Turn. Physics 14, s109. Aug 19, 2021.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/s109

Saori Suda, Tomoharu Suda, et al. Straight-to-Curvilinear Motion Transition of a Swimming Droplet Caused by the Susceptibility to Fluctuations. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088005. Aug 19, 2021.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.088005

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