論文雑誌「Soft Matter」のカバーピクチャーを制作しました[東北大学]

弊社で制作しました東北大学 菊地謙次先生のカバーアートが
イギリスの王立化学会発行の学術雑誌 Soft Matter 2021年12月号に選ばれました。

カバーピクチャー 科学イラスト 論文表紙絵 アートアクション 東北大学
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東北大学
大学院工学研究科 
菊地謙次先生
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Soft Matter
14 December 2021,   Issue 46 Link
Microbial Brazil nut effect
Atul Srivastava, Kenji Kikuchi and Takuji Ishikawa

The Brazil nut effect (BNE) is a counter-intuitive process of segregation of a large object inside a vibrated granular medium (GM), which has been studied widely by subjecting GMs to various kinds of shears and vibrations. In this article, we report a new kind of BNE which occurs as a consequence of granular fluctuations induced by microbe-generated gas bubbles. We call it the ‘microbial Brazil nut effect’. The paper demonstrates microbial BNE for a bidisperse granular mixture as well as for intruder segregation. Furthermore, using X-ray μCT and a simple scaling argument for segregation velocity, the paper clarifies the transport mechanics of an intruder inside a bubbly granular bed. We think the reported phenomenon should be ubiquitous in the microbe-populated wet sandy floors of waterbodies and may have some implication on the distribution of material near the floors.

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