Supercooled Droplet or Ice?
Carlo Antonini, Adrian Mularczyk, Tanmoy Maitra, Manish K. Tiwari, Dimos Poulikakos
Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
In this fluid dynamics video, we show the trick played by a supercooled liquid water droplet against a superhydrophobic surface. The water drop shows a dual personality, impacting onto the surface the first time while still in the liquid state and then re-impacting as a frozen ice crystal.
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