{"id":223716,"date":"2025-10-21T04:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/tiny-droplets-that-bounce-for-minutes-without-bursting-might-be-able-to-do-so-indefinitely"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:22:25","slug":"tiny-droplets-that-bounce-for-minutes-without-bursting-might-be-able-to-do-so-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/tiny-droplets-that-bounce-for-minutes-without-bursting-might-be-able-to-do-so-indefinitely","title":{"rendered":"Tiny droplets that bounce for minutes without bursting might be able to do so indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-droplets-that-bounce-for-minutes-without-bursting-might-be-able-to-do-so-indefinitely2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPFL researchers have discovered that a droplet of liquid can bounce for several minutes\u2014and perhaps indefinitely\u2014over a vibrating solid surface. The seemingly simple observation has big implications for physics and chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever added liquid to a hot frying pan, maybe you noticed how the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/droplets\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">droplets<\/a> bubbled up and skittered across the sizzling surface, rather than immediately flattening and wetting. This happens because the pan\u2019s heat starts boiling the undersides of the droplets, producing vapor that acts as an insulating cushion on which they can\u2014momentarily\u2014dance.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, scientists have produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/room+temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">room-temperature<\/a> version of this phenomenon\u2014known as the Leidenfrost effect\u2014by replacing the hot surface with a rapidly vibrating liquid bath. In these experiments, the vibrations produced a thin film of air on which the liquid droplets could bounce and hover perpetually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPFL researchers have discovered that a droplet of liquid can bounce for several minutes\u2014and perhaps indefinitely\u2014over a vibrating solid surface. The seemingly simple observation has big implications for physics and chemistry. If you\u2019ve ever added liquid to a hot frying pan, maybe you noticed how the droplets bubbled up and skittered across the sizzling surface, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223716","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=223716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}