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cond-mat.soft2012
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…
cond-mat.soft2002
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…