Larger quantities of water shear off the land surface and move to the ditch ... Once the water is collected, it begins seeping into the highly porous soil. The soil particles act like a sieve, ...

Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, shows that active particles can influence the structure of 3D colloidal gels, kneading them into porous and denser structures. "Traditionally ...

These hybrid particles exhibit the orientational order and responsiveness of liquid crystals while possessing the small size, large surface area, and quantum confinement ... orientation within a ...