{"id":557782,"date":"2018-12-17T07:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b5c523eaa64657abef7047fbb2417092"},"modified":"2018-12-17T07:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:53:26","slug":"rapid-controlled-transport-of-water-droplets-by-sunlight-powered-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=557782","title":{"rendered":"Rapid controlled transport of water droplets by sunlight-powered pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by natural or artificial sunlight, a novel &#8220;microtube pump&#8221; transports water droplets over long distances. As reported by Chinese researchers in the Journal Angewandte Chemie, the pump consists of a tube whose properties can be changed asymmetrically through irradiation. This results in capillary forces and a wettability gradient in the inner wall which work together to accelerate the water droplets to exceptional high speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by natural or artificial sunlight, a novel &#8220;microtube pump&#8221; transports water droplets over long distances. As reported by Chinese researchers in the Journal Angewandte Chemie, the pump consists of a tube whose properties can be changed asymmetri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557783,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557782\/revisions\/557783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}