Our work on the extrusion of a beam in a viscous fluid was published in Physical Review E. This project was inspired by the emergency swimming gait of unicellular Paramecium which expels Trichocysts to propel itself away from danger.

Time-lapse photography of a piano wire extruded at constant velocity in corn syrup.

http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.052718