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cond-mat.soft2002★ 309 cited
Water spring: a model for bouncing drops
K. Okumura, F. Chevy, C. Clanet +2
It has been shown that a water drop can bounce persistently, when thrown on a super-hydrophobic substrate. We present here scaling arguments which allow us to predict the maximal d…
cond-mat.soft2002★ 22 cited
Why is nacre strong? II: remaining mechanical weakness for cracks propagating along the sheets
Ko Okumura
In our previous paper (Eur. Phys. J. E 4, 121 (2001)) we proposed a coarse-grained elastic energy for nacre, or stratified structure of hard and soft layers. We then analyzed a cra…