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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 22: Granular Matter/ Contact Dynamics

DY 22.8: Talk

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 15:45–16:00, HÜL 186

Temperature-sensitive wet granular matter — •Christoph Gögelein, Martin Brinkmann, Matthias Schröter, and Stephan Herminghaus — MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Bunsenstr. 10, 37073 Göttingen

We present our recent experimental studies on the temperature-induced formation of capillary bridges in granular matter. We will demonstrate that we can precisely tune the bridge size and force by immersing our glass spheres in a binary liquid mixture [1]. Furthermore, we will discuss the effect of capillary bridges on random sphere packing's using a fluidized bed setup.

[1] C. Gögelein, M. Brinkmann, M. Schröter, and S. Herminghaus, Langmuir 26 (2010) 22, 17184.