Levitation of fizzy drops

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Abstract

As first described by Leidenfrost, liquid droplets levitate over their own vapor when placed on a sufficiently hot substrate. The Leidenfrost effect not only confers remarkable properties such as mechanical and thermal insulation, zero adhesion, and extreme mobility but also requires a high energetic thermal cost. We describe here a previously unexplored approach using active liquids able to sustain levitation in the absence of any external forcing at ambient temperature. We focus on the particular case of carbonated water placed on a superhydrophobic solid and demonstrate how millimetric fizzy drops self-generate a gas cushion that provides levitation on time scales on the order of a minute. Last, we generalize this new regime to different kinds of chemically reactive droplets able to jump from the Cassie-Baxter state to a levitating regime, paving the way to the levitation of nonvolatile liquids.

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Panchanathan, D., Bourrianne, P., Nicollier, P., Chottratanapituk, A., Varanasi, K. K., & McKinley, G. H. (2021). Levitation of fizzy drops. Science Advances, 7(28). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf0888

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