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  PRE Editor’s suggestion - Edge effects on water droplet condensation

  Marie-Gabrielle Medici, Anne Mongruel, Laurent Royon, and Daniel Beysens, Phys. Rev. E 90, 062403 (2014). In this study we investigate the effect of geometrical or thermal discontinuities on the growth of water droplets condensing on a cooled (...)

  
  
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  EPJ E Highlight - Biomimetic dew harvesters

  J.M. Guadarrama-Cetina, A. Mongruel, M.-G. Medici, E. Baquero, A.R. Parker, I. Milimouk-Melnytchuk, W. González-Viñas, and D. Beysens (2014), Eur. Phys. J. E 37: 109. Understanding how a desert beetle harvests water from dew could help to (...)

  
  
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  Self-replicating cracks : a collaborative fracture mode in thin films

  Des physiciens du PMMH viennent de mettre en évidence un nouveau mode de rupture d’un film mince déposé sur une surface. Lorsque cette couche craquèle tout en se décollant, les fissures forment des motifs particulièrement réguliers tels que (...)

  
  
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  Elastic swimmer in the Gallery of Fluid Motion 2013

  By Ramiro Godoy-Diana. See his research group web page.
  

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