Sentences with phrase «spherical droplets of water»

Not exact matches

To copy the beetle's water - collecting design, materials scientist Michael Rubner, chemical engineer Robert Cohen, and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge created a rough coating so water repelling — or hydrophobic — that water sprayed onto it stood up in nearly spherical droplets.

Because of their near - spherical shape, the droplets meet the surface at a high angle — above 150 ° if the water is sitting on a superhydrophobic surface.

What makes bijels remarkable is that, rather than just making the spherical droplets that we normally see when we try to mix oil and water, the particles at the interface shape the liquids into complex networks of interconnected fluid channels.