This research, published recently in Physical Review Letters, supports a theory put forward several years ago by John Abrahamson, a chemical engineer from theUniversityofCanterbury, in New Zealand.
The scheme is a partnership scheme between theUniversityof Greenwich and theUniversityof Kent, together with Mid-Kent College and Canterbury Christ Church University College.
The project began two years ago when UniversityofCanterbury student Andrew Rudge, 25, began searching for a subject for his PhD in mechanical engineering.