High-speed camera captures dancing droplets for scientific 'photo album'

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 15:20 in Physics & Chemistry

The splash from rain hitting a windowpane or printer ink hitting paper all comes down to tiny droplets hitting a surface, and what each of those droplets does. Researchers have produced a high-resolution “photo album” of more than 30 shapes an oscillated drop of water can take. The results, a fundamental insight into how droplets behave, could have applications in everything from inkjet printing to microfluidics.

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