Water's tensile strength measured using an optofluidic chip

• Main Authors: Li, Z. G., Xiong, S., Chin, L. K., Ando, K., Zhang, J. B., Liu, A. Q.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79349; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38494
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, for the first time, the tensile strength of water is directly measured using an optofluidic chip based on the displacement of air–water interface deformation with homogeneous nucleation. When water in a microchannel is stretched dynamically via laser-induced shock reflection at the ai...