Pizza Tossing and Fluid Shattering Earthquakes

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Enough with these housekeeping details, how about that article on describing pizza tossing with nonlinear differential equations?

There's more microfluidics here than meets the eye... yes, of course we have to worry about how the sauce flows, but what Drs. Yeo and Friend have done here is use the physics of tossing dough to design SWUMS—standing wave ultrasonic motors. The motors are only about 250 µm wide and could travel through blood to take on dangerous bodily intruders one-on-one.

If you think these two have done enough research, you haven't been reading the New Scientist. In this NS online article, Dr. Yeo explains how his group has used surface acoustic waves to create a type of earthquake on a microchip. The earthquake converts the drug into an extremely fine mist that can then be absorbed quickly through the skin into the bloodstream. The research article appeared in Lab on a Chip.

Oh yeah, and there's this super cool video too:

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