About this Research Topic
Gravity places demands on everything on Earth - from the way life has developed to the way materials interact - but on a spacecraft orbiting the Earth, gravity is barely felt. This “microgravity environment” is instrumental in unrevealing processes that are interwoven or overshadowed in normal gravity. Hence, microgravity experiments or models can be used as important tools to analyze and understand complex transport phenomena.
There are a variety of transport phenomena worth studying, which help gain understanding in a variety of domains in Earth research, including Chemistry, Physics and Medicine. In order to be able to perform these important experiments in microgravity situations, specialized instrumentation is required to ensure correct functionality in Space, allowing these studies to replicate or expand on their gravity counterparts.
This Research Topic will consider Original Research and Review articles on all aspects of the instrumentation required for studying transport phenomena in low gravity conditions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, studies on the instrumentation required for the following in microgravity conditions:
• Biotransport phenomena
• Protein crystal growth
• Biomaterials
• Boiling, melting, vaporization or other effects
• Interfacial phenomena and colloids
• Fluid dynamics
• Pressure control
• Mechanics of foams
There are a variety of transport phenomena worth studying, which help gain understanding in a variety of domains in Earth research, including Chemistry, Physics and Medicine. In order to be able to perform these important experiments in microgravity situations, specialized instrumentation is required to ensure correct functionality in Space, allowing these studies to replicate or expand on their gravity counterparts.
This Research Topic will consider Original Research and Review articles on all aspects of the instrumentation required for studying transport phenomena in low gravity conditions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, studies on the instrumentation required for the following in microgravity conditions:
• Biotransport phenomena
• Protein crystal growth
• Biomaterials
• Boiling, melting, vaporization or other effects
• Interfacial phenomena and colloids
• Fluid dynamics
• Pressure control
• Mechanics of foams
Keywords: biotransport phenomena, microgravity technology, pressure control, interfacial phenomena, fluid dynamics
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