{"589562":{"#nid":"589562","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Swirls are a step toward self-propelled fluid","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EImagine a liquid that could move on its own without human effort or the pull of gravity. You could put it in a container flat on a table, not touch it in any way, and it would still flow.\u0026nbsp;As reported in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/355\/6331\/eaal1979.full\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;researchers have taken the first step in creating a self-propelling liquid. The finding offers the promise of developing an entirely new class of fluids that can flow without human or mechanical effort. \u003Cem\u003ESchool of Physics Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/alberto-fernandez-nieves\u0022\u003EAlberto Fernandez-Nieves\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and postdoctoral fellow \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ya-wen-winnie-chang\u0022\u003EYa-Wen Chang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;co-authored\u0026nbsp;the study, which was led by collaborators at Brandeis University.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-03-30 19:22:29","changed_gmt":"2017-03-30 21:06:03","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"reconfigurable transceivers","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/self-propelling-liquid-1387842-2\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588828":{"id":"588828","type":"image","title":"Alberto Fernandez-Nieves","body":null,"created":"1489611758","gmt_created":"2017-03-15 21:02:38","changed":"1489611758","gmt_changed":"2017-03-15 21:02:38","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224402","name":"Alberto Fernandez-Nieves.gif","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Alberto%20Fernandez-Nieves.gif","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Alberto%20Fernandez-Nieves.gif","mime":"image\/gif","size":141858,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Alberto%20Fernandez-Nieves.gif?itok=Tj0-_IGi"}}},"media_ids":["588828"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"66681","name":"Alberto Fernandez-Nieves"},{"id":"173915","name":"Ya-Wen Chang"},{"id":"173916","name":"fluids"},{"id":"173917","name":"self-propelling liquids"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}