Taylor cone
Imagine you want to make some tasty cotton candy. So, what do you do? You take a stick with a little bowl at one end and spin it around in some sugary syrup. The spinning motion pulls out the syrup into thin strands that then solidify into sugary goodness.
Now, let's talk about a Taylor cone. It's like making cotton candy but with a liquid instead of sugary syrup.
Imagine you have a tiny drop of liquid, like a drop of water, suspended in the air. If you add a small electric charge to that drop, something magical happens. The drop starts to elongate and stretch out like a pointy cone.
As the charge on the drop increases, the cone gets longer and skinnier until the tip becomes so thin that it starts to eject tiny droplets off itself. These droplets, in turn, continue to stretch and thin out into even tinier cones that also eject droplets, and so on.
This process is called electrospraying and is used in various applications such as creating ultra-small particles for drug delivery or for creating new materials with unique properties.
Now, let's talk about a Taylor cone. It's like making cotton candy but with a liquid instead of sugary syrup.
Imagine you have a tiny drop of liquid, like a drop of water, suspended in the air. If you add a small electric charge to that drop, something magical happens. The drop starts to elongate and stretch out like a pointy cone.
As the charge on the drop increases, the cone gets longer and skinnier until the tip becomes so thin that it starts to eject tiny droplets off itself. These droplets, in turn, continue to stretch and thin out into even tinier cones that also eject droplets, and so on.
This process is called electrospraying and is used in various applications such as creating ultra-small particles for drug delivery or for creating new materials with unique properties.