{"id":217928,"date":"2022-05-17T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=217928"},"modified":"2022-05-17T23:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T21:58:14","slug":"scientists-from-the-polish-academy-of-sciences-observed-the-unusual-behavior-of-water-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/scientists-from-the-polish-academy-of-sciences-observed-the-unusual-behavior-of-water-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists from the Polish Academy of Sciences observed the unusual behavior of water drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IChF PAN) in Warsaw observed a peculiar behavior of water drops. A group of researchers led by Dr Jan Guzowski, in cooperation with scientists from Princeton University, for the first time registered the formation of clumps of droplets self-organizing into more complex structures during the flow through microchannels.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Scientists kept the droplets a short distance away and observed that they began to form a chain that folded and even coiled to resemble a braided string with repeating knots.<\/p>\n<p>This state was transient until the droplets merged into one large drop. However, the &#8220;lifetime&#8221; of these short-lived but intriguing structures was long enough to allow a good look at all stages of their formation and even control the behavior of individual segments.<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2022\/sm\/d1sm01350e\">https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2022\/sm\/d1sm01350e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IChF PAN) in Warsaw observed a peculiar behavior of water drops. A group of researchers led by Dr Jan Guzowski, in cooperation with scientists from Princeton University, for the first time registered the formation of clumps of droplets self-organizing into more complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}