Thursday, July 21, 2005
Beautiful scientific images from PrincetonPrinceton has announced winners in its Art of Science competition in which scientists from many disciplines were invited to submit beautiful images generated by their research. While I was quite partial to Dynamic Asset Allocation in Freight Transportation and Individually Marked Ants, I think that second-prize-winner Driven is tops:
Link (Thanks, Krz!)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.
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