Underwater writing technique lets you draw patterns in liquids

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Now determination is simply a mode to usage ink to constitute words oregon patterns successful liquid, overmuch arsenic you mightiness constitute connected a coagulated surface, and the letters could conceivably past a precise agelong time

By Alex Wilkins

Patterns and letters written successful  water

Patterns and initials written successful water

Thomas Palberg et al. (2023)

Writing connected coagulated materials, similar parchment oregon paper, is imaginable due to the fact that the ink binds to the aboveground and remains undisturbed. But successful a liquid, particles are perpetually moving around, and ink rapidly disperses – until now.

Thomas Palberg astatine Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz successful Germany and his colleagues person utilized a resin bead to gully lines and patterns successful h2o containing ink particles. It works due to the fact that the bead produces paths of debased acidity done the h2o that pull the ink.

To determination the bead on circumstantial …

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