Showing posts with label ferrofluids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ferrofluids. Show all posts

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Ferrofluids

As we have seen in the previous post, fluids don't always have the same behavior. Non-newtonian fluids aren't so popular, but how about if we think about magnetic properties and we try to apply them to a fluid? We will obtain a ferrofluid. This material acts as a liquid, but at the same time, if it's close to a magnet it will have magnetic properties. Beautiful sculptures have been made through this material.
Here we can see a video showing some of these sculptures moving. It is called ""Morpho Towers -- Two Standing Spirals" by Sachiko Kodama and Yasushi Miyajima