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| Title |
Dynamics of microdroplets over the surface of hot water
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Scientific Reports, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1038/srep08046 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Takahiro Umeki, Masahiko Ohata, Hiizu Nakanishi, Masatoshi Ichikawa |
| Abstract |
When drinking a cup of coffee under the morning sunshine, you may notice white membranes of steam floating on the surface of the hot water. They stay notably close to the surface and appear to almost stick to it. Although the membranes whiffle because of the air flow of rising steam, peculiarly fast splitting events occasionally occur. They resemble cracking to open slits approximately 1 mm wide in the membranes, and leave curious patterns. We studied this phenomenon using a microscope with a high-speed video camera and found intriguing details: i) the white membranes consist of fairly monodispersed small droplets of the order of 10 μm; ii) they levitate above the water surface by 10 ~ 100 μm; iii) the splitting events are a collective disappearance of the droplets, which propagates as a wave front of the surface wave with a speed of 1 ~ 2 m/s; and iv) these events are triggered by a surface disturbance, which results from the disappearance of a single droplet. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 110 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 23 | 21% |
| United States | 4 | 4% |
| France | 2 | 2% |
| China | 2 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Uruguay | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Unknown | 69 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 101 | 92% |
| Scientists | 5 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 3% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 2% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 52 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 12 | 21% |
| Unknown | 5 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy | 18 | 32% |
| Engineering | 13 | 23% |
| Materials Science | 8 | 14% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 9% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 114. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 January 2024.
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#4,157
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#4,490
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