Open AccessTunable solidification of cornstarch under impact: How to make someone walking on cornstarch sink
Author(s) -
Ran Niu,
Meera Ramaswamy,
Christopher Ness,
Abhishek Shetty,
Itai Cohen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
science advances
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.928
H-Index - 146
ISSN - 2375-2548
DOI - 10.1126/sciadv.aay6661
Subject(s) - sink (geography) , thickening , computer science , biological system , heat sink , materials science , computer vision , physics , biology , polymer science , thermodynamics , geography , cartography
An object plunging into a thickening suspension can be made to sink faster by applying orthogonal perturbations.
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