Ha, this article sounds like some coffee-loving physics grad students procrastinating on their thesis, and their professor said, hmm, maybe we can publish this!
When the Mentos + Diet Coke thing was first a big thing, a friend of mine who ran a biotech firm (so was always writing funding proposals), submitted a proposal for an aerosolizer using a similar process, as a mass dispersal system for the military, if I recall correctly. Don’t know if it ever got funded, though.
There are several groups focused on coffee research. Lots to learn about taste perception, extraction dynamics, fluid flow, etc. And because the coffee market is so large, any discovery can have a big practical impact.
When the Mentos + Diet Coke thing was first a big thing, a friend of mine who ran a biotech firm (so was always writing funding proposals), submitted a proposal for an aerosolizer using a similar process, as a mass dispersal system for the military, if I recall correctly. Don’t know if it ever got funded, though.