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venerdì 18 novembre 2022
# gst: apropos of transitions, the transition from sticking to slipping.
mercoledì 15 febbraio 2023
# gst: when a soliton juggles ('catches' and 'throws') droplets
sabato 25 settembre 2021
# gst: ️apropos of spontaneous active matter, the active droploids.
lunedì 29 giugno 2020
# gst: self-assembly in complex patterns during the evaporation of a sessile droplet
sabato 22 aprile 2023
# gst: when droplets are capable of self-propulsion as if they were surfing on a self-generated wave.
venerdì 4 febbraio 2022
# gst: apropos of apparent erratic dynamics, the self-organization of drops bouncing on a vertically-vibrated surface
lunedì 30 agosto 2021
# gst: apropos of 1or2achoos (e.g. from Wuhan), the dynamics of turbulence in a fluid puff
martedì 14 novembre 2017
# gst: a striking analogy between solid–solid and solid–drop frictions
AA << report that the lateral adhesion force between a liquid drop and a solid can also be divided into a static and a kinetic regime. This striking analogy with solid–solid friction is a generic phenomenon that holds for liquids of different polarities and surface tensions on smooth, rough and structured surfaces >>
Nan Gao, Florian Geyer, et al. How drops start sliding over solid surfaces. Nature Physics doi: 10.1038/nphys4305 Nov 6, 2017
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys4305
AA << acknowledges that their experiments are just the beginning in trying to fully understand the nature of friction between drops and solid objects >>
Bob Yirka. Droplet friction found to be similar to that of solid objects. Nov 8, 2017
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-11-droplet-friction-similar-solid.html
venerdì 15 marzo 2024
# gst: multi-component droplets may exhibit self-lubricating effects
sabato 12 ottobre 2019
# gst: exploring the lifespan of a liquid droplet
<< Current theories state that the droplet's diameter-squared decreases in proportion to time (classical law); however, this period only accounts for a small portion of the drop's evolution. As the diameter approaches the unobservable micro- and nano-scale, molecular dynamics have to be used as virtual experiments and these show a crossover to a new behaviour, with the diameter now reducing in proportion to time (nano-scale law). >>
<< It is fascinating that intuition based on everyday observations are a hindrance when attempting to understand nanoscale flows, so that, as in this research, one has to lean on theory to enlighten us. >> James Sprittles.
The lifespan of an evaporating liquid drop. University of Warwick. Oct 10, 2019. https://m.phys.org/news/2019-10-lifespan-evaporating-liquid.html
Rana A.S., Lockerby D.A., Sprittles J.E. Lifetime of a Nanodroplet: Kinetic Effects and Regime Transitions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 154501 Oct 9, 2019. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.154501
mercoledì 7 settembre 2016
# s-gst: surface waves as a Turing machine
<< A droplet bouncing and wandering across a liquid surface can produce waves that store the history of its chaotic motion >>
Philip Ball. Focus: Surface Waves Store Bouncing Droplet’s History. Physics 9, 101. August 26, 2016.
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/101
S. Perrard, E. Fort, Y. Couder. Wave-Based Turing Machine: Time Reversal and Information Erasing. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 094502 – DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.094502 Published 26 August 2016
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.094502
lunedì 19 febbraio 2018
# chem: how to quickly wrap droplets with a splash to stabilize emulsions
<< Whether an object has a regular or irregular shape, wrapping it with a thin film can be challenging >>
Deepak Kumar, Joseph D. Paulsen, et al. Wrapping with a splash: High-speed encapsulation with ultrathin sheets. Science. 2018; 359 (6377): 775 - 8. doi: 10.1126/science.aao1290. Feb 16, 2018.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/775
<< The quick and simple solution Kumar [Deepak Kumar] has found is a huge advance, and once he mastered it and identified the most important parameters, he found he could get adventurous and make different shapes. "We show that we have made cubes and a tetrahedron, for example" >>
<< If you want to add complexity, you could put a layer or a pattern on the inside of the wrapping, or you could add a window to make it slightly leaky. Once you know how to do the technique, it's not fussy. >>
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Physicists speed up droplet-wrapping process. Feb 15, 2018.
https://m.phys.org/news/2018-02-physicists-droplet-wrapping.html
giovedì 29 ottobre 2020
# life: aprops of 1or2 achoo! from Wuhan (SARS-CoV-2), a mask build of 'nanofibers randomly land on a collector to create a sort of non-woven mesh'
mercoledì 24 febbraio 2021
# gst: apropos of 'transitions', slow dynamics of complex connected networks can control the rate of demixing
sabato 21 maggio 2022
# gst: apropos of transitions, two aspects of intermittency
venerdì 3 luglio 2020
# gst: contactless manipulation of droplets levitating in an acoustic wave
sabato 30 ottobre 2021
# gst: apropos of transitions, perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities; the 'porous individualism'
lunedì 8 aprile 2024
# gst: apropos of evaporation, puncturing of active drops
lunedì 25 marzo 2019
# gst: the auto assembly of a drop (from thermal capillary waves)
<< after single or multiple bridges form due to the presence of thermal capillary waves, the bridge growth commences in a thermal regime. Here, the bridges expand linearly in time much faster than the viscous-capillary speed due to collective molecular jumps near the bridge fronts. Transition to the classical hydrodynamic regime only occurs once the bridge radius exceeds a thermal length scale l_(T) ~ sqrt(Radius). >>
Sreehari Perumanath, Matthew K. Borg, et al. Droplet Coalescence is Initiated by Thermal Motion. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 104501 Mar 13, 2019.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.104501
Supercomputer sheds light on how droplets merge. University of Edinburgh. Mar 20, 2019.
https://m.phys.org/news/2019-03-supercomputer-droplets-merge.html