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Droplet on a sugar fiber
Stéphane Dorbolo, Floriane Weyer, Alexandre Delory +2
The motion of a water droplet on a single vertical sugar fiber is analyzed. The fiber is positioned vertically, with the droplet placed at its pending end. If the capillary force e…
Drop on a Bent Fibre
Zhao Pan, Floriane Weyer, Williams G. Pitt +2
Inspired by the huge droplets attached on cypress tree leaf tips after rain, we find that a bent fibre can hold significantly more water in the corner than a horizontally placed fi…
Compound droplets on fibers
Floriane Weyer, Marouen Ben Said, Johannes Hötzer +4
Droplets on fibers have been extensively studied in the recent years. Although the equilibrium shapes of simple droplets on fibers are well established, the situation becomes more…
Compound droplet manipulations on fiber arrays
Floriane Weyer, Marjorie Lismont, Laurent Dreesen +1
Recent works demonstrated that fiber arrays may constitue the basis of an open digital microfluidics. Various processes, such as droplet motion, fragmentation, trapping, release, m…