How a single chemical droplet becomes a "motor"
4,446 views · Published 4 January 2018 · 2:02 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Quartz · 2018 · Science & Technology
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. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/kdDpXu FOLLOW QUARTZ: Facebook: https://goo.gl/DsmLvx Twitter: https://goo.gl/rY7pSX Check out the rest of our videos: https://goo.gl/A8gZvx 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.
