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Merging of isolated liquid drops is a common phenomenon that may greatly be influenced by adding polymeric contents to the liquid. Here, we bring out an exclusive control on the dynamics of the intermediate liquid bridge, thus, formed via exploiting the interactions of an exciting electric field with a trace amount of polymeric inclusions present in the intermingling drops. Our results unveil a unique competition of the elastic recovery and time-oscillatory forcing during the drop-unification at early times. However, damped oscillations as a specific signature of the polymer concentration feature eventual stabilization of the bridge at later instants of time. We rationalize these experimental findings in light of a simple unified theory that holds its critical implications in droplet manipulation in a wide variety of applications encompassing digital microfluidics, chemical processing, and biomedical analytics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract  The results of computational-experimental studies of the parameters of the energy spectra of neutrons from the nuclear facilities of the Russian Science Center Kurchatov Institute which have different core structures, reflectors, parameters, and type of fuel elements are presented. The measurements were performed using the methods of resonance activation unified composite detectors. Individual measurement results are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]