The Floating Water Bridge.

Original Publications

E. C. Fuchs, J. Woisetschläger, K. Gatterer, E. Maier, R. Pecnik, G. Holler, and H. Eisenkölbl, The floating water bridge, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 (2007) 6112–6114 (this article has been selected as one of the highlights of the articles published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics in 2007).

Elmar C. Fuchs, Karl Gatterer, Gert Holler, and Jakob Woisetschläger, Dynamics of the floating water bridge, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 41 (2008) 185502 (print publication: Issue 18, 21 September 2008).

Elmar C. Fuchs, Brigitte Bitschnau, Jakob Woisetschläger, Eugen Maier, Brigitte Beuneu, and José Teixeira, Neutron scattering of a Floating Heavy Water Bridge, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42 (2009) 065502 (print publication: Issue 6, 21 March 2009).

Jakob Woisetschläger, Karl Gatterer, and Elmar C. Fuchs, Experiments in a Floating Water Bridge, Experiments in Fluids, 48 (2010) 121–131).

Elmar C. Fuchs, Patrick Baroni, Brigitte Bitschnau, and Laurence Noirez, Two-Dimensional Neutron Scattering in a Floating Heavy Water Bridge, J. Phys. D.: Appl. Phys., 43 (2010) 105502 (5pp).

Emilio Del Giudice, Elmar C. Fuchs and Giuseppe Vitiello, Collective Molecular Dynamics of a Floating Water Bridge, Water, 2 (2010) 69–82.

Elmar C. Fuchs, Can a Century Old Experiment Reveal Hidden Properties of Water? Water, 2 (2010) 381–410 (doi:10.3390/w2030381).

E. C. Fuchs, L. L. F. Agostinho, M. Eisenhut, J. Woisetschläger, Mass and charge transfer within a floating water bridge, SPIE Conference Proceedings of the XII. International Conference on Laser Applications in Life Sciences, Oulu, Finland, June 2010 (Proc. SPIE 7376 (2010) 73761E1-15).

E. C. Fuchs, L. L. F. Agostinho, A. Wexler, R. M. Wagterveld, J. Tuinstra, J. Woisetschläger, The behavior of a floating water bridge under reduced gravity conditions, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys 44 (2011) 025501

Mathias Eisenhut, Xinghua Guo, Astrid H. Paulitsch-Fuchs, Elmar C. Fuchs, Aqueous phenol and ethylene glycol solutions in electrohydrodynamic liquid bridging, Cent. Eur. J. Chem. 9 (2011) 391–403

Jakob Woisetschläger, Adam D. Wexler, Gert Holler, Mathias Eisenhut, Karl Gatterer, Elmar C. Fuchs, Horizontal bridges in polar dielectric liquids, Exp. Fluids (2011) DOI 10.1007/s00348-011-1216-x (online publication: 16 October 2011)

Lukasz Piatkowski, Adam D. Wexler, Elmar C. Fuchs, Hinco Schoenmaker, Huib J. Bakker, Ultrafast vibrational energy relaxation of the water bridge, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2011) DOI: 10.1039/c1cp22358e

Elmar C. Fuchs, Brigitte Bitschnau, Silvia Di Fonzo, Alessandro Gessini, Jakob Woisetschläger, Filippo Bencivenga, Inelastic UV Scattering in a Floating Water Bridge, J. Phys. Sci. Appl. 1 (2011) 135–147

Elmar C. Fuchs, Adam D. Wexler, Luewton L. F. Agostinho, Michael Ramek, and Jakob Woisetschläger, Methanol, Ethanol and Propanol in EHD liquid bridging, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 329 (2011) 1–8; doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/329/1/012003

A. H. Paulitsch-Fuchs, E. C. Fuchs, A. D. Wexler, F. T. Freund, L. J. Rothschild, A. Cherukupally, and G. J. W. Euverink, Prokaryotic transport in electrohydrodynamic structures, Phys. Biol. 9 (2012) 026006

E. C. Fuchs, A. Cherukupally A. H. Paulitsch-Fuchs, L. L. F. Agostinho, A. D. Wexler, J. Woisetschläger, and F. T. Freund Investigation of the mid-infrared emission of a floating water bridge, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 45 (2012) 475401

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Images and Videos

The following pictures and movies present the water bridge under different observation directions:

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