Grabbing water
Soft Condensed Matter
2012-07-17 v1
Abstract
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 enabled us to design petal-shaped objects with maximum grabbing capacity.
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@article{arxiv.1207.3756,
title = {Grabbing water},
author = {P. M. Reis and J. Hure and S. Jung and J. W. M. Bush and C. Clanet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3756},
year = {2012}
}