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How not to make a splash

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New research promises to minimise dangerous and wasteful splashes from crop spraying to coiffure.

When a falling drop of liquid hits a surface, its energy has to go somewhere. Usually there's a splash because part of it still has enough energy to bounce right back up again. Now researchers in France have found a way to make a non-splash liquid1.

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  1. Bergeron,V., Bonn, D., Martin, J. Y. & Vovelle, L. Controlling droplet deposition with polymer additives. Nature 405, 772 - 775 2000.

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Haw, M. How not to make a splash. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000615-10

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