capillary action- a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries capillarity surface tension- a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Pr...
Qualitative investigations suggest that capillary forces play a crucial role in determining the fibre conformation upon drying. To quantify this process, we theoretically and experimentally investigate deformation of a circular tube under capillary pressure. Fibre pit holes, which impose a significant ...
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Capillary Action is defined as a phenomenon where ascension of liquids through a tube or cylinder takes place and the main cause of capillary action is adhesive and cohesive forces. When the tube is narrow then the rise in liquid will be high. When the surface tension and a ratio of two p...
The capillary tube considered in this work is filled with an incompressible and a compressible fluid, immiscible to each other, which flow through it. The fluids are separated by menisci associated with a surface tension. In order to introduce a variation in the capillary forces along the tube,...
Objects that deform a liquid interface are subject to capillary forces, which can be harnessed to assemble the objects1,2,3,4. Once assembled, such structures are generally static. Here we dynamically modulate these forces to move objects in programmable two-dimensional patterns. We 3D-print devi...
They have a narrow internal diameter, which allows for the capillary action to take place. Capillary action is the phenomenon where liquid flows against gravity in narrow spaces due to the adhesive and cohesive forces between the liquid and the walls of the tube. The small size of capillary ...
Capillary microfluidics is driven through spontaneous capillary flow (SCF)1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and can perform timed multi-step processes by leveraging capillary forces encoded in device architecture without the need for external triggers (e.g., pushing a button, programming an electrical signal, or ...
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A fluorescent immunoassay employing the interior surface of a capillary tube is provided. Devices to permit immunoassays using one or more capillary tubes, an apparatus for use with the devices, and a