Physical properties of clusters, ie systems composed of a 'small'number of particles, are
qualitatively different from those of infinite systems. The general approach to the problem of …

Optofluidics, which utilizes the interactions between light and fluids to realize various
functions, has garnered increasing attention owing to the advantages of operational …

Water forms ordered hexagonally symmetric structures (snow crystals) in its solid state,
however not as liquid. Typically, mists and clouds are composed of randomly moving small …

Many viruses, such as coronaviruses, tend to spread airborne inside water microdroplets.
Evaporation of the microdroplets may result in a reduction of their contagiousness. However …

Infrared irradiation of a droplet cluster has been used during several years as the main
method of preventing coalescence of the cluster with a layer of water. The desired effect is …

Condensed microdroplets play a prominent role in living nature, participating in various
phenomena, from water harvesting by plants and insects to microorganism migration in …

The influence of salt (NaCl) dissolved in water on the behavior of levitating droplet clusters,
including the formation of equilibrium clusters from saline water droplets during their infrared …

When the water surface is heated locally, a self-ordered regular cluster of levitating droplets
is formed above it. A condensational growth of water droplets leads to coalescence of the …

The self-assembled clusters of regularly positioned small droplets were observed for the first
time in 2004 by Alexander Fedorets. The recent results on stabilization of droplet clusters …

A method to generate levitating monodisperse microdroplet clusters with an arbitrary
number of identical droplets is presented. Clusters with 1–28 droplets levitate over a locally …