Education
Non-newtonian pool - Can you walk on water ?
Activities proposed
Would you be able to walk on water? At the Night we challenge you to try in our non-Newtonian pool!
Inside you will find a very special fluid: a suspension of water and cornstarch, behaving both like a liquid and like a solid.
When you run or apply a quick force, starch particles move closer together and trap the water: the fluid becomes semi-rigid and… you can walk on it!
But if you stand still or press slowly, the mixture flows like a liquid – just like quicksand.
A surprising phenomenon that is not only fun: non-Newtonian fluids also have real applications in engineering, biology, and safety (for example in dense fluid body armors that harden upon impact).
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Agriculture and food
Education
Health and personalized medicine
Nano- and quantum technologies
Research
Technological innovation
Environment and sustainability
Disciplines
Biology and Biotechnology
Chemistry and Materials Science
Engineering and Computer Science
Interdisciplinary
Medicine and Pharmacology
Natural and Environmental Sciences
Physics and Astronomy
- Organization
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University of Salento (UniSalento)
- Department/Institute
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", INFN Lecce, CNR-Nanotec
- Laboratory
- Omnics Research Lab, European Infrastructure on Magnetism (EMFL), Italian Innovative Research Infrastructure on applied Superconductivity (IRIS)
- Partner Organizations
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Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM)
- Scientific Responsibles
- Anna Grazia Monteduro, Silvia Rizzato, Angelo Leo, Ritu Rawat, Saba Aziz, Giuseppe Maruccio e gruppo Omnics
