{"id":244863,"date":"2026-10-03T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/spinning-liquid-into-solid"},"modified":"2026-10-03T01:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:48:32","slug":"spinning-liquid-into-solid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/spinning-liquid-into-solid","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Liquid into Solid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spinning-liquid-into-solid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new technique for generating solid fibers from a liquid jet is easier to model\u2014and thus easier to control\u2014than past methods.<\/p>\n<p>In traditional spinning, fibers are twisted together into a continuous strand. In modern manufacturing, spinning can involve drawing out liquid streams to produce solid filaments that are woven into advanced materials. But the process is complex and challenging to model theoretically. Now researchers have shown how to greatly simplify the process by using light to catalyze solidification within a stream of freely falling liquid [<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v19\/137#c1\">1<\/a>]. The technique may offer more control over the manufacture of fibers than current methods can provide.<\/p>\n<p>The complexity of most modern force-driven spinning arrangements led fluid mechanics expert Henri Lhuissier of Aix-Marseille University in France and his colleagues to develop a simpler technique. \u201cMost manufactured fibers are spun,\u201d he says, \u201cbut what happens is mostly unpredictable due to the complexity of chemistry, phase changes, fluid mechanics, and other factors.\u201d He says that much remains unknown about how solidification takes place and, therefore, what the ultimate size of the fiber will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique for generating solid fibers from a liquid jet is easier to model\u2014and thus easier to control\u2014than past methods. In traditional spinning, fibers are twisted together into a continuous strand. In modern manufacturing, spinning can involve drawing out liquid streams to produce solid filaments that are woven into advanced materials. But the process [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244863","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=244863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}