Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 61005072;the Self-Planned Task of State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System under Grant Nos SKLRS201501A04 and SKLRS201301A01
The forces acting on submillimeter spheres at the air-water interface are investigated theoretically and experimentally. To calculate the capillary force acting on the sphere, an iterative method is used to determine ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar under Grant No 50725518, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 50805040 and 50605013, Self-Planned Task of State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (HIT) under Grant No SKLRS200804B.
We investigate the capillary forces between submillimeter spheres and flat surfaces at constant liquid volumes theoretically and experimentally. An iterative method is used to estimate the capillary force with contact...