{"id":4342,"date":"2010-03-22T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thales.mit.edu\/bush\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2021-04-15T00:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:56:55","slug":"grabbing-water-the-elastocapillary-pipette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thales.mit.edu\/bush\/index.php\/2010\/03\/22\/grabbing-water-the-elastocapillary-pipette\/","title":{"rendered":"Grabbing water: the elastocapillary pipette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide has-purple-background-color has-background-dim\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thales.mit.edu\/bush\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Grab2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4519\" width=\"518\" height=\"411\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thales.mit.edu\/bush\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Grab1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4520\" width=\"437\" height=\"545\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tw-text-wide has-small-font-size\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tw-text-wide has-small-font-size\"><br>See:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/math.mit.edu\/~bush\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/grabbing-water-2010.pdf\">Reis, Hure, Jung, Bush &amp; Clanet (2010)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tw-text-wide has-small-font-size\">The folding of flowers represents an example of capillary origami in nature, a few examples of which are discussed in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/math.mit.edu\/~bush\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gallery2009-Reis.pdf\">Reis, Jung, James, Clanet and Bush (2009)<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"tw-text-wide has-small-font-size\">The elastocapillary pipette was adapted for use in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thales.mit.edu\/bush\/index.php\/2021\/02\/28\/biomimicry-and-the-culinary-arts\/\">culinary arts<\/a>, as a means of serving small volumes of liqueurs with flowers composed of edible gels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grabbing water: the elastocapillary pipette - John W. 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