Deposition of liquid droplets on solid surfaces is of great importance to many fundamental scientific principles and technological applications, such as spraying, coating, and printing. For example, during the process of pesticide spraying, more than 50% of agrochemicals are lost because of the undesired bouncing and splashing behaviors on hydrophobic or superhydrophobic leaves. We show that th...

Drop impacts on solid and liquid surfaces exhibit complex dynamics due to the competition of inertial, viscous, and capillary forces. After impact, a liquid lamella develops and expands radially, and under certain conditions, the outer rim breaks up into an irregular arrangement of filaments and secondary droplets. We show experimentally that the lamella expansion and subsequent breakup of the ...

We experiment with releasing ethanol droplets, from a specific height, onto both flexible and rigid surfaces. The study of the resulting impact and splashing provides new insights into the mechanisms of the short time-scale dynamics. Tuning and even suppressing a splash can be achieved by the use of elastic membranes with controlled tension. Under certain experimental conditions, i.e., droplet ...

BACKGROUND In Japanese Kampo medical practice, suidoku (fluid disturbance) is one of the most important concepts for selecting the proper medication. Suidoku is an excessive or uneven distribution of fluid that is indicated by splashing sounds and pitting edema. However, few objective reports about suidoku have been published. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) uses resistance values obtain...

Physical properties of molten slag such as viscosity, density and surface tension have a significant influence on the slag splashing process in an oxygen steelmaking converter. Particularly, viscosity determines the shear forces that rule droplets formation. Besides, stirring of the molten slag bath strongly depends on this property. In this work, the influence of viscosity on the efficiency of...

A drop impacting a solid surface with sufficient velocity will emit many small droplets creating a splash. However, splashing is completely suppressed if the surrounding gas pressure is lowered. The mechanism by which the gas affects splashing remains unknown. We use high-speed interference imaging to measure the air beneath all regions of a spreading viscous drop as well as optical absorption ...

Probably most venereologists would agree that, in men, trichomoniasis is always a venereal disease, but in women the infestation is sometimes acquired other than by sexual contact. The mode of asexual transmission is not known. Trussell (1947) stated that douche nozzles, enema tubes, towels, physicians' gloves, and instruments had all been incriminated but never proved to spread the protozoa. M...