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LONDON, UK - - Droplet Computing today announced the appointment of Michelle Laverick as Chief Technologist.

Scientists have long believed that the turbulent air within clouds causes water droplets to link together in clusters that can then influence precipitation formation, but the complexities of cloud turbulence have made quantifying the extent of the clustering problematic.

The researchers have developed a model that predicts the color a droplet will produce, given specific structural and optical conditions.

The experimental setup used to evaluate the corona discharge activity due to a water droplet on silicone rubber insulating material under AC voltages is shown in Fig.

Singapore-based insurance cooperative, NTUC Income, has announced the launch of Droplet, an insurance product that protects commuters against surge pricing when it is raining, Straits Times has reported.

Figure 2 shows the evolution of vegetable oil droplet geometry during the cooling process.

Droplets first nucleated on the cooled surface and the droplets grew due to direct condensation (i.e., between the moist air and condensed droplet).

Some new microoptical devices are also based on droplet actuation.

Here, the droplet, typically made of electrically conductive water, is used as one electrode of a capacitor.

Droplet evaporation is one of the most common physical phenomena occurring both in nature and in many industrial processes [1, 2].

Now that's about to change, thanks to the work of a group of researchers from Duke University and Intel using a "jumping droplet" technique.

As an additional test to determine whether minimum droplet size might also affect the results, they drew 10 successive 10-microliter droplets from seven additional donors.