Background Wine mouthfeel sensations are recognized as important as wine appearance,
aroma or taste, although they are not fully understood. The majority of the current research is …

Controlling surface wettability and directing the flow of working fluids have crucial
implications in various natural and engineering contexts. Understanding the fundamental …

Marangoni flow, a surface shear flow, is a promising option for propulsion when controlling
liquid droplet motion on solid substrates. However, the applicability of Marangoni flow …

Hypothesis: Microscopic self-propelled motors (SPMs) are an area of active research, but
very little investigation has been conducted on millimetre-scale or macroscopic SPMs and …

Simulating nature to manufacture a self-powered device or motor has been an important
goal in science and engineering. Conventional spontaneous motion has generally been …

When solute molecules in a liquid evaporate at the surface, concentration gradients can
lead to surface tension gradients and provoke fluid convection at the interface, a …

We present a novel Material Point Method (MPM) discretization of surface tension forces that
arise from spatially varying surface energies. These variations typically arise from surface …

The spreading of a pure, volatile liquid on a wettable substrate has been studied in
extensive detail. Here we show that the addition of a miscible, nonvolatile liquid can strongly …

Self-propulsion of liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid and coated with hydrophobic
fluorosilica powder on a water surface is reported. The prolonged self-propulsion of marbles …

The surface tension of living cells and tissues originates from the generation of
nonequilibrium active stresses within the cell cytoskeleton. Here, using laser ablation, we …