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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"elastocapillary"”.
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Elastocapillary self-assembly: Theoretical and experimental investigations of dynamic liquid-lamella systems
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Advanced Fog Harvesting Techniques
… hand-wound assemblies that are prone to elastocapillary wire tangling. To overcome these challenges, this chapter introduces manufacturable and anti-tangling Fog Harps that maintain the record fog harvesting efficiency (~17%) achieved by optimized scale-model designs, while enabling …
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Capillary flows in flexible structures
… deformed shapes of cylindrical structures, the elastocapillary length used in previous literature for flat plates and sheets can also apply for flexible tubes, if the tube radius is used as the characteristic length scale.
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Capillary Assembly Of Microparticles On Curved Fluid Interfaces
… modes with curvature fields. Lastly, I show the elastocapillary interactions of microcylinders on a thin film of uniform nematic liquid crystals. In all the studies described above, interface curvature, in particular, finite deviatoric curvature plays a central role in assembly and in guiding …
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Single polymer dynamics in semi-dilute solutions: linear and ring polymers
… determined with the optically-detected elastocapillary self-thinning dripping-onto-substrate (ODES-DOS) extensional rheometer. Overall, this thesis aims to provide a fundamental molecular picture of polymer dynamics in the semi-dilute concentration regime and for different polymer …
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Fog Harps: Elastocapillarity, Droplet Dynamics, and Optimization
Fog harvesting is emerging as a promising means to ease the water shortage crisis in arid regions of the world with ample fog. The current state-of-the-art for fog harvesting is mesh netting, which is accessible yet struggles from a dual constraint: a course mesh lets most microscopic fog droplets …