Grabbing Water

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Reis, Pedro Miguel; Hure, Jeremy; Jung, Sungwan; Bush, John W. M.; Clanet, Christophe
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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.
Date issued
2010-10
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77954
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
Journal
Soft Matter
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry, The
Citation
Reis, Pedro M. et al. “Grabbing Water.” Soft Matter 6.22 (2010): 5705.
Version: Author's final manuscript
ISSN
1744-683X
1744-6848
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