Engineers use liquid drops to make solids stiffer
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Engineers at Yale University have discovered that the stiffness of liquid drops embedded in solids has something in common with Goldilocks: While large drops of liquids are softer than the solid that surrounds them, extremely tiny drops of liquid can actually be stiffer than certain solids. But when they're "just right," the liquid drops have the exact same stiffness as the surrounding solid.