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Journal Articles Soft Matter Year : 2010

Grabbing water

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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. © 2010 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

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hal-01020667 , version 1 (08-07-2014)

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P.M. Reis, J. Hure, S. Jung, J.W.M. Bush, Christophe Clanet. Grabbing water. Soft Matter, 2010, 6 (22), pp.5705-5708. ⟨10.1039/c0sm00895h⟩. ⟨hal-01020667⟩
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