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Cooking up bubbles to make tiny pumps

Swelling and shrinking bubbles may eventually act as tiny pumps to drive micromachines.

 

References:

Yuan, H., and A. Prosperetti. 1998. Bubble-based pump for small channels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104(September):1770.

 

Sources:

Andrea Prosperetti
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Baltimore, MD 21218

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 18, October 31, 1998, p. 284.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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