It depends on the diameter of the fiber... and also on its substructure! These are the findings of a study conducted by researchers who are interested in microfluidics, especially water harvesting ...

Evidence of such madness can be observed in nature, where huge droplets of water attach to cypress tree ... By varying the fiber attachment locations, they could change the angle formed between the ...

The simplest way of doing this is to use a net to catch water droplets that condense on the material for ... about the small-scale physics of the flow inside the grooves between these fibres that we ...

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.103601) Water droplets move faster down bundles of fibres ... fibres and bundles at the same speeds because the contact surface between the liquid and the fibres is the ...

The researchers began with the simplest possible model: the interactions of water droplets with a ... they include fibre geometry, the distance between the fibres, and the fibres' mechanical ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

It reveals that tiny electric discharges between oppositely charged water droplets can make the building block molecules of life. “We propose that this is a new mechanism for the prebiotic ...

The Davis-Hocking model specifically describes the contact line (or boundary) that forms between a drop of water and another surface, such as another drop of water. The results, published Dec. 13 ...

A new study from Stanford suggests that life might have been kickstarted by constant zaps from “microlightning” between water droplets. The most profound missing link in the evolutionary tree ...