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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 (...)
Left: normal glass; right: with alternating rain and sunshine, self cleaning glass stays cleaner (and hydrophilic) (Saint-Gobain).TiO2 is known (...)
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