Spore Drops (IMAGE)

Duke University

Spore Drops

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In this model, based on an inkjet printer and enlarged models of spores, a high-speed camera shows how spores use the physics of merging droplets to uniformly launch themselves out into the world.

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Chuan-Hua Chen, Duke University

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