{"id":207761,"date":"2025-03-04T03:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/high-speed-cameras-capture-hot-droplets-bouncing-across-a-cool-pan"},"modified":"2025-03-04T03:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:27:38","slug":"high-speed-cameras-capture-hot-droplets-bouncing-across-a-cool-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/high-speed-cameras-capture-hot-droplets-bouncing-across-a-cool-pan","title":{"rendered":"High-speed cameras capture hot droplets bouncing across a cool pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-speed-cameras-capture-hot-droplets-bouncing-across-a-cool-pan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a droplet of water falls on a hot pan, it dances across the surface, skimming on a thin layer of steam like a tiny hovercraft; this is known as the Leidenfrost effect. But now, researchers know what happens when a hot droplet falls on a cool surface.<\/p>\n<p>These new findings, published in the journal <i>Newton<\/i>, demonstrate that hot and burning droplets can bounce off cool surfaces, propelled by a thin layer of air that forms beneath them. This phenomenon could inspire new strategies for slowing the spread of fires and improving engine efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started with a very fundamental question: What will happen when a burning droplet impacts a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solid+surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solid surface<\/a>?\u201d says senior author Pingan Zhu of City University of Hong Kong, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a droplet of water falls on a hot pan, it dances across the surface, skimming on a thin layer of steam like a tiny hovercraft; this is known as the Leidenfrost effect. But now, researchers know what happens when a hot droplet falls on a cool surface. These new findings, published in the journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207761","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}