{"id":222136,"date":"2025-09-19T03:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/engineers-uncover-why-tiny-particles-form-clusters-in-turbulent-air"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:20:59","slug":"engineers-uncover-why-tiny-particles-form-clusters-in-turbulent-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/engineers-uncover-why-tiny-particles-form-clusters-in-turbulent-air","title":{"rendered":"Engineers uncover why tiny particles form clusters in turbulent air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-uncover-why-tiny-particles-form-clusters-in-turbulent-air2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny solid particles\u2014like pollutants, cloud droplets and medicine powders\u2014form highly concentrated clusters in turbulent environments like smokestacks, clouds and pharmaceutical mixers.<\/p>\n<p>What causes these extreme clusters\u2014which make it more difficult to predict everything from the spread of wildfire smoke to finding the right combination of ingredients for more effective drugs\u2014has puzzled scientists.<\/p>\n<p>A University at Buffalo study, <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2507580122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, suggests the answer lies within the electric forces between particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny solid particles\u2014like pollutants, cloud droplets and medicine powders\u2014form highly concentrated clusters in turbulent environments like smokestacks, clouds and pharmaceutical mixers. What causes these extreme clusters\u2014which make it more difficult to predict everything from the spread of wildfire smoke to finding the right combination of ingredients for more effective drugs\u2014has puzzled scientists. A University at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222136","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=222136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}