Flex your fingers and you’ll see your skin fold into well-defined creases. Many soft solids (including old apples) fold this way, and like your skin, the creases never fully disappear, Keep reading
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Folding Fluids
Highly viscous liquids – like cake batter, lava, or the spider silk above – fold as they fall. Several factors impact this instability including the fluid’s density, viscosity, surface tension, Keep reading
Wrapping Droplets
Future efforts for targeted drug delivery may require encapsulating droplets before transporting them to their final location. One method for encapsulation is wrapping a drop in a thin, solid sheet. Keep reading
Self-Wrapping Drops
A liquid drop can fold itself up in a thin sheet. The animation above shows a drop of water with an ultra-thin (79nm) circular sheet of polystyrene atop it. As Keep reading