Grabbing Water
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 en...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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Royal Society of Chemistry, The
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77954 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3984-828X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-7256 |