But surface tension tries to pull the droplet back together, resisting the spreading motion. Hence, a droplet rapidly expands to some radius where the forces balance.

Physicists at the University of Liège have succeeded in sculpting the surface of water by exploiting surface tension. Using ...

Check out this video demo: So, that is just plain water. If I am careful, I can make that thin aluminum disk stay on the surface of the water. This is not the same as floating in Archimedes ...

Propelled by chemical changes in surface tension, microrobots surfing across fluid interfaces lead researchers to new ideas. Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you’re likely to notice ...

Drip feed: droplets of a low-surface-tension fluid forming on the surface of a pipe treated by iCVD. (Courtesy: K Varanasi and collegues/MIT) A new surface coating that could boost the efficiency of ...

Surface-tension gradient in thin films explains why foams unexpectedly form. Skip to content ... But the loss of fluid is often slowed (or even entirely prevented) by two factors.