{"id":232196,"date":"2026-02-27T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-puddle-that-jumps-what-bubble-bursts-reveal-about-water-on-lotus-like-surfaces"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:26:16","slug":"a-puddle-that-jumps-what-bubble-bursts-reveal-about-water-on-lotus-like-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-puddle-that-jumps-what-bubble-bursts-reveal-about-water-on-lotus-like-surfaces","title":{"rendered":"A puddle that jumps: What bubble bursts reveal about water on lotus-like surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-puddle-that-jumps-what-bubble-bursts-reveal-about-water-on-lotus-like-surfaces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water droplets have a unique ability: They can leap from a surface on their own. This can happen for a variety of reasons, such as when a surface repels water or when heat is involved, such as a water or oil droplet skittering across a hot pan.<\/p>\n<p>It also happens at a very small scale. Up to this point, researchers have observed droplets up to 3 millimeters in diameter exhibiting this behavior. When droplets are larger than that, gravity prevents it from jumping.<\/p>\n<p>A new study published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i> identifies a previously unreported way to get a puddle of water up to a centimeter wide to jump into the air, something that could support applications from surface cleaning to 3D printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water droplets have a unique ability: They can leap from a surface on their own. This can happen for a variety of reasons, such as when a surface repels water or when heat is involved, such as a water or oil droplet skittering across a hot pan. It also happens at a very small scale. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232196","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=232196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}