Issue 22, 2010
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Soft Matter

Grabbing water†‡

Pedro M. Reis,*ab   Jérémy Hure,c   Sungwan Jung,de   John W. M. Bushe  and  Christophe Clanetf  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Av., Cambridge, MA, USA
E-mail: preis@mit.edu

b Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

c PMMH, CNRS UMR 7636, UPMC & Univ. Paris Diderot, ESPCI - ParisTech, 10, rue Vauquelin, Paris Cedex 05, France

d Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

e Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

f Laboratoire d`Hydrodynamique de l`Ecole Polytechnique (LadHyX), Palaiseau, France

Abstract

We introduce a novel technique for grabbing water with a flexible solid. This new passive pipetting mechanism was inspired by floating flowers and relies purely on the coupling of the elasticity of thin plates and the hydrodynamic forces at the liquid interface. Developing a theoretical model has enabled us to design petal-shaped objects with maximum grabbing capacity.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM00895H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Aug 2010
Accepted
06 Oct 2010
First published
14 Oct 2010

Soft Matter, 2010,6, 5705-5708

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P. M. Reis, J. Hure, S. Jung, J. W. M. Bush and C. Clanet, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 5705 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00895H

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