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Science art: Driven. Evolving patterns over film on silicon wafer
Anton Darhuber, Benjamin Fischer and Sandra Troian
Microfluidic Research and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering

This image illustrates evolving dynamical patterns formed during the spreading of a surface-active substance (surfactant) over a thin liquid film on a silicon wafer. After spin-coating of glycerol, small droplets of oleic acid were deposited. The usually slow spreading process was highly accelerated by the surface tension imbalance that triggered a cascade of hydrodynamic instabilities. Such surface-tension driven flow phenomena are believed to be important for the self-cleaning mechanism of the lung as well as pulmonary drug delivery.

source: Art of Science Competition

thescienceofreality:

scipsy:

Front view of the semiconductor trackers for ATLAS, one of the four enormous detectors for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (via Fermilab)

So beautiful.

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♥ kawaii :3

fineartcatalogue:

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