Dynamics of a Camphoric Acid boat at the air-water interface

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Akella, V. S.; Singh, D. K.; Mandre, S.; Bandi, M. M.;
(2017)
We report experiments on an agarose gel tablet loaded with camphoric acid (c-boat) set into self-motion by interfacial tension gradients at the air-water interface. We observe three distinct modes of c-boat motion: harmonic mode where the c-boat speed oscillates sinusoi... View more
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