Grabbing Water
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Author(s)
Reis, Pedro Miguel
Hure, Jeremy
Jung, Sungwan
Bush, John W. M.
Clanet, Christophe
Date Issued
October 2010
Journal
Soft Matter
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry, The
Citation
Reis, Pedro M. et al. “Grabbing Water.” Soft Matter 6.22 (2010): 5705.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
We introduce a novel technique for grabbing water with a flexible solid. This new passive pipetting mechanism was inspired by floating flowers and relies purely on the coupling of the elasticity of thin plates and the hydrodynamic forces at the liquid interface. Developing a theoretical model has enabled us to design petal-shaped objects with maximum grabbing capacity.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM00895H
