Epidermal biopolysaccharides from plant seeds enable biodegradable turbulent drag reduction

The high cost of synthetic polymers has been a key impediment limiting the widespread adoption of polymer drag reduction techniques in large-scale engineering applications, such as marine drag reduction. To address consumable cost constraints, we investigate the use of high molar mass biopolysacchar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rajappan, Anoop, McKinley, Gareth H
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123544