New Method Uses Heat Flow to Levitate Variety of Objects
Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 00:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Although scientists have been able to levitate specific types of material, a pair of UChicago undergraduate physics students helped take the science to a new level. Third-year Frankie Fung and fourth-year Mykhaylo Usatyuk led a team of UChicago researchers who demonstrated how to levitate a variety of objects--ceramic and polyethylene spheres, glass bubbles, ice particles, lint strands and thistle seeds--between a warm plate and a cold plate in a vacuum chamber.