Liquid-crystal columns were prepared and observed under microgravity aboard suborbital TEXUS rocket flights. The microgravity phase of each flight lasted for approximately six minutes. We tested structures in different liquid-crystalline mesophases....
We have developed a simple method of fabricating liquid metal nanowire (NW) arrays of eutectic GaIn (EGaIn). When an EGaIn droplet anchored on a flat substrate is pulled perpendicular to the substrate surface at room temperature, an hourglass shaped...
Silver nanomaterials (AgNMs) have been applied as antibacterial agents to combat bacterial infections that can cause disease and death. The antibacterial activity of AgNMs can be improved by increasing the specific surface area, so significant effort...
During operation, cables of overhead power lines (OPLs) are exposed to the impact that differs in separate parts of the OPL span due to the different responses of cables near the clamps and far from them. This paper presents the results of a study of...
Improvements to the interfacial curvature of interFoam based on (i) the smoothing of the liquid fraction field and (ii) the creation of a signed distance function (ϕ-based) are implemented. While previous work in this area has focused on evaluat...
The interfacial instability of a complex fluid in a multiphase flow system is ubiquitous in both nature and industry. We experimentally investigated the spreading and interfacial instability dynamics of a binary droplet (a water and 2-propanol (IPA)...
Crystalline silver thin layers were obtained using high-energy pulsed laser ablation without the heating of the deposition substrate. The fluid Plateau–Rayleigh (PRI), Rayleigh–Taylor (RTI), and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RMI) instabilities...
Multicomponent optical fibers with incorporated metals are promising photonic platforms for engineering of tailored plasmonic structures by laser micromachining or thermal processing. It has been observed that during thermal processing microfluidic p...