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Is this a new discovery? A few years ago I remember seeing water droplets navigating a maze in a youtube video but I don't know if they went into enough detail
by pg_bot 8y ago
Is this a new discovery? A few years ago I remember seeing water droplets navigating a maze in a youtube video but I don't know if they went into enough detail about how the mechanism worked.
- rzzzt 8y agoThe Leidenfrost Maze: https://youtu.be/w0lMJcAfzU4 https://youtu.be/w0lMJcAfzU4
- v_lisivka 8y agoCan it be used for an automatic small-scale chemical reactor? Many reactions requires heating anyway.
- sandworm101 8y agoThis seems less about the motion of the drop and more about the internal motion of water within the drop. The maze demo deals with steam, not the liquid water within the drop before it becomes steam.
- gene-h 8y agoThe maze example required a special shaped substrate to achieve motion, this work achieved droplet motion without a shaped substrate