How a single chemical droplet becomes a "motor"
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Those paper fish are actually miniature robots powered by the “Marangoni effect,” which can make chemical droplets spin like motors on water.
It might sound insane, but you’ve seen the effect before, and researchers think it could be a new way to create clean energy.
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It might sound insane, but you’ve seen the effect before, and researchers think it could be a new way to create clean energy.
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Quartz is a digitally native news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at https://qz.com/ to read more.
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