Elastic Leidenfrost effect enables soft engines
Monday, July 24, 2017 - 10:02
in Earth & Climate
Water droplets float in a hot pan because of the so-called Leidenfrost effect. Now, physicists have discovered a variation: the elastic Leidenfrost effect. It explains why hydrogel balls jump around on a hot plate making high-pitched sounds. They have published the results of their study in Nature Physics.