{"id":184183,"date":"2024-03-02T03:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T09:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/magnetizing-water-drops-to-make-them-hop"},"modified":"2024-03-02T03:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T09:24:40","slug":"magnetizing-water-drops-to-make-them-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/magnetizing-water-drops-to-make-them-hop","title":{"rendered":"Magnetizing water drops to make them hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetizing-water-drops-to-make-them-hop3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small combined team of material scientists from Sun Yat-sen University and Dalian University of Technology, both in China, has found that it is possible to make a single drop of water hop in desired ways by putting a magnetic particle inside of it and turning an electromagnet on and off. The <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.3c11197\">research<\/a> published in the journal ACS Nano.<\/p>\n<p>The research team was investigating on-demand droplet transportation as part of a larger effort. To learn more about the possibility of inciting drops of liquid, in this case water, to move in desired ways, they set up several structures.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers carved small grooves on a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/flat+surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">flat surface<\/a>. The surface was then covered with a varnish known to prevent water absorption, thereby allowing droplets to form when splashed onto the surface. Once the droplets formed, the team placed a tiny piece of metal into each drop, where it was held in place by the forces that held the bubble shape. The entire surface was then placed over a set of electromagnets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small combined team of material scientists from Sun Yat-sen University and Dalian University of Technology, both in China, has found that it is possible to make a single drop of water hop in desired ways by putting a magnetic particle inside of it and turning an electromagnet on and off. The research published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}