Jumping crystals: Kinematic analysis of light-induced jumping crystals
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 06:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Live beings are not the only things that can move around – it turns out that small crystals can also rotate or even jump. Scientists from United Arab Emirates and Russia have now systematically examined crystals that move when irradiated by light. In the journal Angewandte Chemie they present the first quantitative kinematic analysis of this phenomenon, which they have termed the photosalient effect.