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Magasinage means "floating ink" in japanese. In scientific terms, the drawing is made by spreading ink through the so-called Marangoni effect. Here is a short movie showing how it works, and - cursorily - why.
Magasinage means "floating ink" in japanese. In scientific terms, the drawing is made by spreading ink through the so-called Marangoni effect. Here is a short movie showing how it works, and - cursorily - why.
Here is a flat surface on which drops always go in the same direction. Instead of spreading evenly they spread only in one and the same (…)
A solid surface is superhydrophobic when a water drop sitting on the surface exhibits a very large contact angle, typically larger than 150°. In (…)
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