Researchers from CNRS, ESPCI Paris, and Saint-Gobain used a 3D imaging technique of X-ray micro-tomography to follow the evolution of a mixture of molten glass at high temperature. They shed new light on an original mechanism of liquids fragmentation, which might apply to texturing glasses at tiny scales. Their work was recently published in Physical Review Letters.
Conçu au PMMH, ce micronageur artificiel, d’un diamètre d’un millimètre, reproduit les mouvements de l’anguille. Il est ici filmé (de gauche à droite) (...)
Although bending a sheet of paper into a cylinder or a conical hat is quite easy, bending the same sheet in two simultaneous directions is not (...)
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