Water droplets climbing uphill

29 October 2012, 4:01 pm

Undergraduate physics students from the University of Bath are investigating the Leidenfrost effect, which allows droplets of liquid on a heated surface to levitate and even climb uphill. This video shows water droplets on a heated textured surface that are able to climb uphill, compared with droplets on a smooth surface that run downhill as normal. http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2012/10/29/water-travelling-uphill/