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Pendulums, Drops and Rods: a physical analogy
Benoît Roman, Cyprien Gay, Christophe Clanet
A liquid meniscus, a bending rod (also called elastica) and a simple pendulum are all described by the same non-dimensional equation. The oscillatory regime of the pendulum corresp…
Nanorheology of interfacial water during ice gliding
L. Canale, J. Comtet, A. Nigues +4
The slipperiness of ice is an everyday-life phenomenon which, surprisingly, remains controversial despite a long scientific history. The very small friction measured on ice is clas…
Superhydrophobic frictions
Timothée Mouterde, Pascal S. Raux, Christophe Clanet +1
Contrasting with its sluggish behavior on standard solids, water is extremely mobile on superhydrophobic materials, as shown for instance by the continuous acceleration of drops on…
Two recipes for repelling hot water
Timothée Mouterde, Pierre Lecointre, Gaëlle Lehoucq +3
Although a hydrophobic microtexture at a solid surface most often reflects rain owing to the presence of entrapped air within the texture, it is much more challenging to repel hot…
Drop Trampoline
Pierre Chantelot, Martin Coux, Christophe Clanet +1
Rigid superhydrophobic materials have the ability to repel millimetric water drops, in typically 10 ms. Yet, most natural water-repellent materials can be deformed by impacting dro…
Grabbing water
P. M. Reis, J. Hure, S. Jung +2
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…