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Jan. 18, 2022 —Engineers have discovered that they can actually move deep water and create upward fountains by shining laser beams on the water's surface. The finding, credited to the Marangoni effect, has ...
Nov. 4, 2021 —Mechanical engineers have devised a technique of 'crystal capillary origami' where salt crystals spontaneously encapsulate liquid droplets. The process offers a new method of nanostructure ...
Jan. 12, 2021 —A surprisingly simple method improves 'drop casting' fabrication of tiled nanosheets that could be used in next-generation electronic devices. All you need is a pipette and a ...
Aug. 26, 2021 —Skin electronics require stretchable conductors that satisfy metal-like conductivity, high stretchability, ultrathin thickness, and ease of patternability, but it is challenging to achieve these ...
Sep. 16, 2021 —Inspired by a kind of tree leaf, scientists discovered that the spreading direction of different liquids deposited on the same surface can be steered, solving a challenge that has remained for over ...
Aug. 16, 2021 —Some proteins in cells can separate into small droplets like oil droplets in water, but faults in this process may underlie neurodegenerative diseases in the brains of older people. Now, researchers ...
Nov. 4, 2022 —In 1842, the famous British researcher Michael Faraday made an amazing observation by chance: A thin layer of water forms on the surface of ice, even though it is well below zero degrees. So the ...
Oct. 22, 2021 —Researchers develop polymer coating that enables low surface tension liquids to be transported over distances 15 times longer than currently possible, without losing any of the ...
June 14, 2021 —Researchers show that switching between reflective and scattering states can be achieved with just 1.4 V, about the same voltage used to light a typical ...
Oct. 9, 2020 —Propelled by chemical changes in surface tension, microrobots surfing across fluid interfaces lead researchers to new ...