• Home
  • Daily News
  • Parenting
  • Education
  • Nutrition
  • Adult Tech
  • Nature
©2023 - The Better Parent. All Right Reserved. Designed & Developed by Theory Solutions

‘Dancing’ holes in droplets submerged in water-ethanol mixtures

by Staff June 30, 2018
June 30, 2018 103 views

Researchers have observed the formation of holes that move by themselves in droplets of ionic liquids (IL) sitting inside water-ethanol mixtures. This curious, complex phenomenon is driven by an interplay between how ionic liquids dissolve, and how the boundary around the droplet fluctuates. Self-driven motion is a key feature of active matter, materials that use ambient energy to self-propel, with potential applications to drug delivery and nano-machine propulsion.

Source: sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily
0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
previous post
When Is Amazon Prime Day? And 10 More Things to Know About It
next post
8 things to do before your baby heads off to college

Related Posts

Silver nanoparticles show promise in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria

January 31, 2023

Thin, lightweight layer provides radiation barrier for perovskites...

January 31, 2023

Study finds how our brains turn into smarter...

January 31, 2023

Mocktails or cocktails? Having a sense of purpose...

January 31, 2023

Diversity of viroids and viroid-like agents

January 31, 2023

Bioengineered skin grafts that fit like a glove

January 31, 2023

Trending

  • 3 Ways to Edit the boot/config.txt File on Raspberry Pi

    August 30, 2018
  • 6 Tools to Sync Microsoft Outlook With Google Calendar

    January 7, 2019
  • How to Vectorize an Image in Adobe Illustrator

    March 29, 2019
  • What Does This Emoji Mean? Emoji Face Meanings Explained

    May 24, 2019
  • The 7 Best DIY Security Camera Apps and Software for Linux

    May 31, 2019

©2023 - The Better Parent. All Right Reserved. Designed & Developed by Theory Solutions

Related Articlesx

Spice containers pose contamination risk during food...

Lung tissue from the lab

Foam offers way to manipulate light