Soft matter offers new ways to study how ordered materials arrange themselves
"When you are making the toroid, the forces on the needle are large enough that the surrounding material behaves as a fluid," he explained. "Once you stop, the elasticity of the outside fluid overcomes surface tension and that freezes the structure in place."
Making Doughnuts shape droplets out of liquids is really cool... mmmmmm...Doughnuts.
