Sunday, June 26, 2005
Beautiful science
That's one image from the 2005 Art of Science Exhibition run at Princeton university. There are another 50 or so pictures just as cool so go check it out
The image above , by Anton Darhuber, Benjamin Fischer and Sandra Troian won second prize and is accompanied by the following explanatory text:
This image illustrates evolving dynamical patterns formed during the spreading of a surface-active substance (surfactant) over a thin liquid film on a silicon wafer. After spin-coating of glycerol, small droplets of oleic acid were deposited. The usually slow spreading process was highly accelerated by the surface tension imbalance that triggered a cascade of hydrodynamic instabilities. Such surface-tension driven flow phenomena are believed to be important for the self-cleaning mechanism of the lung as well as pulmonary drug delivery.
1 Comments:
I think you're right, this is the real science, most of the people can't understand the real fact behind this beautiful picture. Therefore, we need more bloggers like you, with this scientific view and this kind if sense to show theevolving dynamical patterns.
