Real-time imaging of granular matter
Writing in Science Advances, a team of researchers from IBT and the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering has reported a novel approach for studying granular systems.
Granular matter, such as grains or sand, can behave similarly to solids, liquids, or gases. But it also shows many phenomena that defy common physics and are important to understand both fundamentally and for process engineering. The new approach combines advances in magnetic resonance imaging with the tayloring of experimental particles to study granular physics in real-time, at frame rates beyond 100 images per second.
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