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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 122, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.234501
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- German Aerospace Center (DLR) [50WM1430, 50WM1744]
- NASA [NNX-13AQ81G]
- DLR
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We demonstrate controlled material transport driven by temperature differences in thin freely suspended smectic films. Films with submicrometer thicknesses and lateral extensions of several millimeters were studied in microgravity during suborbital rocket flights. In-plane temperature differences cause two specific Marangoni effects, directed flow and convection patterns. At low gradients, practically thresholdless, flow transports material with a normal (negative) temperature coefficient of the surface tension d sigma/dT< 0 from the hot to the cold film edge, it accumulates at the cold film edge. In materials with d sigma/dT > 0, the reverse transport from the cold to the hot edge is observed. We present a model that describes the effect quantitatively. It predicts that not the temperature gradient in the film plane but the temperature difference between the thermopads is relevant for the effect.
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