{"id":4454,"date":"2015-11-04T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:09:39","slug":"de-ice-de-ice-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/de-ice-de-ice-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"De-ice de-ice baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4455\" style=\"width: 896px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dynamics-Droplet-Trampolining-V01-1024x318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4455\" class=\"wp-image-4455\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dynamics-Droplet-Trampolining-V01-1024x318.jpg\" alt=\"An image sequence showing a water droplet trampolining on a superhydrophobic surface, with time advancing from left to right. (Image credit: T. M. Schutzius, G. Graeber, &amp; D. Poulikakos)\" width=\"886\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image sequence showing a water droplet trampolining on a superhydrophobic surface, with time advancing from left to right. (Image credit: T. M. Schutzius, G. Graeber, &amp; D. Poulikakos)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water droplets resting on water-repellent surfaces spring away spontaneously in a low-pressure environment, according to a new study . This finding \u00a0could be used to help develop more advanced anti-icing systems for ships, offshore drilling rigs, and airplanes. The researchers found that as the water evaporated, a difference in pressure caused the drops to spontaneously b<\/span>ounce away from the water-repellent surface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature15738\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November 4<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/press.nature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2015\/10\/Vollmer-NV-Poulikakos.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">accompanying commentary article<\/span><\/a> was\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November 4<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Dimos Poulikakos,\u00a0ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland<\/h4>\n<h4>Doris Vollmer,\u00a0Max Planck Institute for Polymer\u00a0Research, Germacy<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water droplets resting on water-repellent surfaces spring away spontaneously in a low-pressure environment, according to a new study . This finding \u00a0could be used to help develop more advanced anti-icing systems for ships, offshore drilling rigs, and airplanes. The researchers found that as the water evaporated, a difference in pressure caused the drops to spontaneously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[347,1011,1284],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-physics","tag-technology","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-19Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}